TEMPLE-ENTRY MOVEMENT IN TRAVANCORE 43 87 C A Times, "Malabar", F B Evans (ed.) Madras District Gazetteer 1933, Reprinted by Superintendent, Government Press, Madras 1951, pp 295-303. 88 Ibid, 89 Peter Mandi, "Quantity and Quality in the Educational Policies of Developing Countries, Studies on Developing Countries, No 29, Centre for Afro-Asia Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1969. 40 See Abraham M Nidhiry, Father Nidhiry: A History of His Time^, Deepika Book House, Kottayam 1970, pp 131-137. 41 Hormice C Perumaly (ed.^Chavara Death Centenary, 1871-1971, PBS Alleppey, KP Press, Kottayam 1971, p 171. 43 Nair Service Society, Golden Jubilee Commemoration Volume of the NSS, 1964, p 74. 48 The literacy rate in Keralafor the total population in 1971 was 60.3 per cent. Since more than 25 per cent of the population must have been in the age group which would be illiterate even in a state with 'universal literacy', the effective rate of literacy (literacy rate for the population 10 years and above) in Kerala came to more than 80 per cent; the bulk of the illiterates in the age group 10 and above will be found, obviously, in the population belonging to the advanced age groups.