Interpreting Kerala s Social Development

Interpreting Kerala's Social Development book by G. Aloysius

G. Aloysius is freelance researcher and social activist. His books include Nationalism Without a Nation in India (OUP) and Religion as Emancipatory Identity: A Budhist Movement among the Tamils under Colonialism (New Age International).:

Extracts from “Interpreting Kerala's Social Development”

“In short, the second half of the 19th century is crucial to the modern history of Kerala in this: it was during this period that the cultural foundation was laid for the politicization process of the Malayali ethnie; it consisted in the language becoming ‘urban capitalist’, mass-based or simply non-contextual; paralel revolutions underlay this phenomenon, that of massification of education and popularisation of vernacular journalism.”