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

Author/Contributor(s):	Cody, Francis
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	11/15/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...