Many scholars and sociologists have concluded that Kerala
stands out among the other states in India and mention about the peculiar
statistics concerning women, how they are balanced or even more in number in
Kerala, how educated they are and how the gender equality situation is much better
in Kerala, thereby constituting to its uniqueness in the world. But what most
of you may not know is how that came about, especially the involvement of
certain foreign companies and individuals who set out training and employing many
hundreds of thousands of women from Kerala’s backward castes in the 19th
and 20th centuries starting after the fact that Travancore boasted
of the first girl’s school as early as 1819 (even though informal education for
upper caste women was available much before that).
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