"Nalanda Was Oxbridge, Ivy League Of Ancient India": Historian William Dalrymple

Historian William Dalrymple has described Nalanda University as the Oxbridge of ancient India which attracted students from all over, including Korea and Japan. "Nalanda - the oxbridge, the Ivy League, the NASA of ancient Asia - was visited not just by monks from China but monks from Nepal, Korea and Japan. Its library had science, mathematics, astronomy, everything was gathered in this extraordinary space. Look at the plan of different monasteries and university buildings in Nalanda, it is the same as we find in Oxbridge," Mr Dalrymple told NDTV.