Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India's Miracle State

by K. Ravi Raman and Tirthankar Roy

Book Overview

'Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the state's unusual human development, asked how a poor and economically stagnant state could achieve high levels of education and healthcare and pointed to politics and government policy to answer the question. Little of that scholarship took history seriously. History, this book says, shows that the foundations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009521659
• ISBN13: 9781009521659
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages