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André Béteille, b. 1934, Indian sociologist; contributed articles.
Even though India has made rapid and significant strides to reduce illiteracy, the fact that at least 30 million Indians still cannot read and write at the beginning of the twenty-first century is a matter of considerable concern and has engendered many efforts to tackle it. One of the more innovative campaigns to eradicate illiteracy was the nationwide Total Literacy Campaign launched in 1988. This important volume takes stock of the Total Literacy Campaign ...
Photography as a medium has captured the diverse realities of women’s lives over the last century and a half, providing a more holistic understanding of what is learned through the written word, memory, and recall. Visualizing Indian Women is a collection of 300 archival photographs accompanied by explanatory captions depicts women s lives during the period 1875 1947. It also includes a comprehensive, well-researched, yet lucid introduction placing in context ...