A Review of:
India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
by Richard M. Eaton
In particular, its huge Buddhist universities, such as Nalanda and Vikramashila, with their tens of thousands of learned monks, were regarded with deepest reverence — as though they were a sort of cross between Oxbridge, the Ivy League and the Alexandria Library.
ByWilliam Dalrymple
Book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44128461-india-in-the-persianate-age-1000-1765