Kerala, India’s education frontrunner, now faces enrolment dip and politicisation Premium
In 1817, Gouri Parvati Bayi, queen regent of Travancore, issued a proclamation that would echo through two centuries: the State would bear the entire cost of educating its people “that there might be no backwardness in the spread of enlightenment among them”. This recognition of public instruction as a state duty laid the foundation for…
