Set in the context of India's policies to advance adult education over the past 50 years, this is a vivid and lively account of a celebrated mass literacy campaign in the district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu.
Social Scientist completed forty years of publication the year 2012. To Mark this occasion it is planned to bring out a number of volumes containing articles on specifics themes from past issues of the journal. The Present book is a part of this series. It contains a set of thirteen essays written by professor Venkatesh Athreya.
