The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
(Part of the Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge Series)
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Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801479185
ISBN13:9780801479182
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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