Annotated Bibliography

Literacy in India:

Topic Proposal and Annotated Bibliography

Ammarnnath NVG

North Carolina State University

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.” ― Shashi Tharoor The Republic of India is a large South Asian country rich in ethnic diversity, with over one billion people speaking hundreds of languages. Politically, it is the world's largest liberal democracy. India is also the second most populated country in the world. India has grown significantly, in terms of both population and strategic importance,

Bishnupriya Gupta is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Warwick and has held positions at the London School of Economics, the Delhi School of Economics and the University of St. Andrews, and visiting positions at the Centre of Economic Research in Tilburg and the University of Alicante. Her research interests are mainly in economic history and development economics (Voxeu.org - Bishnupriya Gupta). In this article , published by Oxford Printing Press, the major topic is poverty and growth in India. Gupta et al's (2007) studies discuss and debate over poverty. The extent to which Indian growth has already benefited the poorest sections of the population is contentious. Per-capita income certainly remains low, and over a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. Indeed, if we define the poor as those who live on less than $1 a day, India has one-third of the total number of the world’s poor.(See Datt and Ravallion (2002), based on calculations using the World Bank’s Poverty Monitoring database). Gupta points out about the official estimates made by the Planning Commission are based on the consumer expenditure surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) in the years 1993/4 and 1999/2000. These estimates show large reductions in poverty—between 1993/4 and 1999/2000, the percentage of the population below the poverty line fell from 37 to 27 per cent in rural

They reveal the plans and steps taken by India till date to annihilate illiteracy and poverty, since the end of British rule but we have illiteracy and even dreadful, poverty. She explains how economic problems in India exacerbate poverty or the case for renewed literacy programs in India by stating that it's like the chicken and the egg problem. There is no better way to describe the debilitating relationship between poverty and unemployment in India. Poverty at its core is a life crippling condition. But literacy, is not. The Effects of illiteracy in India and growth and literacy are also significant topics discussed in the article. She accentuates the disadvantages of illiteracy in India and suggests us to make the removal of illiteracy in India a national priority and exhibits some approaches made by our