The Scindia School

The Scindia School, with its unique location, may be a notably different residential school. Located atop the magnificent Gwalior Fort it's the town below and therefore the hills across. The ramparts of the Fort have witnessed Tantia Topes troops battle British, and seen the Rani of Jhansi breathe her last in her final assault. an off-the-cuff glance out of a classroom window could find eyes rest on an exquisite sixth century temple, adorned with bas-reliefs. The history of The Scindia School provides a desirable peep into the unfolding history of India, intertwined with the making of recent India. The Scindia School, originally The Sardars School, was founded in 1897 by the visionary HH Maharaja Madhavrao Scindia I. The turn of the nineteenth century was a period of turmoil and disorientation, because the colonial Macaulayite system of education with English because the medium of instruction, was displacing the normal pathshalas, madarsas and gurukuls. Even some time past, the school captured the simplest of the training of the new world, and combined it with the simplest of timeless India. Indeed ever since, The Scindhia School has unfailingly been one step before its time.