Dr. Ankur Kakkar is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Indic Studies, Indus University, Ahmedabad where he teaches courses on Indian history and Indian Knowledge Systems. He is also the editor of Indic Varta, the electronic magazine published by the Centre for Indic Studies, Indus University. Ankur is interested in the deeper civilizational aspects and continuities in Indian history and culture and his research work focuses on these aspects. Ankur received his doctorate in History from the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. His doctoral dissertation entitled “The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic school of Lahore: A Study of Education Reform in Colonial Punjab (1880-1920)” was supervised by Prof. Gita Dharampal, daughter of eminent historian Shri Dharampal. Ankur’s dissertation highlighted the continuities between pre-colonial patshalas or indigenous village schools and educational institutions established by nationalists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His dissertation documented the history of one of the most significant reformist educational enterprises in colonial India, namely the Dayananda Anglo-Vedic (D.A.V.) Movement. While pursuing his doctoral study on the History of Indian education, Ankur published various articles that reassessed the content of colonial surveys on indigenous Indian education as well as the education policy in colonial India. Ankur has studied and researched on various Indian and Western educational models and enterprises. Ankur also holds a postgraduate degree in History from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.