This paper presents a detailed review of various handwritten numeral recognition of various Indian languages. Character recognition is a field of pattern recognition which is in active research for the past few decades for its vast fields of application and still remains a challenging topic for research. Handwritting recognition is one the applications of Character Recognition. Various hand writing recognition for Indian languages has been under research in the past few years. The major challenges with handwritten character recognition is that the non-uniformity in the writing style of character, different styles of writing the same character, smoothness of the curves of the character and similarity between two characters. Several techniques have been developed to recognize Indian Numerals and have varying recognition rate. Some of the techniques are discussed below.