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Worlds Apart: Orality, Literacy, and the Rajasthani Folk-Mahabharata
1990
Oral Tradition
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It will be helpful to begin by quoting some sample statistics on levels of literacy in present-day India. The following are selected from the India Literacy Atlas, and relate to the 1971 census; it may be noted that in most categories these fi gures show an increase of around 5% over those for 1961. Constituency Percentage literacy India as a whole 29.34 Rural India 23.60 Urban India 52.48 Indian men 39.51 Indian women 18.44 Men in rural Rajasthan 22.58 Women in rural Rajasthan 3.85 Tribals in
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