Dr G.W. Leitner wrote the incredibly detailed book ‘History of Indigenous Education in the Punjab’. In 1864, he also became Principal of Government College Lahore and founded the University of the Punjab in 1882.

His report of 1881 detailed that the Punjab education system at the time of the

Punjabi-Sikh Empire was a lot more advanced than education in Europe and that Punjab had more scholars and intellectuals than anywhere else in the world. The below article details his report.