Lighting the lamp of literacy by the Missionaries in South Travancore

Abstract

he present paper is an attempt to analyse the development of school education in south Travancore. General education was started in south Travancore only by missionaries. Before that the high class Brahmins only conducted schools. The caste rigidity did not allow the low caste to have education. The Christian Missionaries brought revolutionary changes in the life of the people of Travancore through education. These changes reflected in socio, economic, religious, political life of the people of Travancore.