Light of Knowledge - Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India

Klappentext 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... Zusammenfassung 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...

Product details

• Authors: Francis Cody
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9780801452024
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-5202-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge; Expertise: Cultures and Techno; Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge; Expertise: Cultures and Techno
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous