This pioneering work documents the history of deaf education in India. It fills the much-needed and delayed gap in information about education of deaf and hard of hearing children in this subcontinent. The well-researched work includes information about treatment of people with disabilities over centuries starting with the Vedic period and focuses on deaf education from the last part of the 19th Century when formal education of deaf children began up to the present era. In addition to schools, it includes information about organizations of deaf people, laws and policies that affected education during the last century, short biographies of major actors in deaf education and the present situation.This informative book will be of great use to students, researchers, educators, administrators, government agencies and, most of all, deaf people themselves in India and around the world.