Marilyn Silverstone - INDIA. State of Kerala.

INDIA. State of Kerala. - Trivandrum. St Joseph's English High School. June 14th 1959. In the Catholic school, 20 of the 54 teachers are 'communist minded', as well as 400 of the 1500 students. This school will stay closed while others will be reopened in the Trivandrum district according to Government orders. The staff and the students tried to stop the military and the police from reopening the other schools. - Marilyn Silverstone

Trivandrum. St Joseph's English High School. June 14th 1959. In the Catholic school, 20 of the 54 teachers are 'communist minded', as well as 400 of the 1500 st...

INDIA. Ettamannur. Children using a palmtree to cross in the flooded swamp area during the monsoon. 1959.

Ettamannur. Traffic on the river.

INDIA. State of Kerala. - Kerala, fishing village of Pullivila a Catholic community south of Trivandrum.The Nair Service Society (NSS) and the Church)has founded hundreds of schools over the state,colleges etc.The School Managers Ass made a drive against the Education Act (run s the NSS and Church schools).Conflicts arose in the groups and shortly after police firing had killed 2 men and injured five others.At the two places where the men had fallen,their womenfolk knelt and wailed in the bloodstained sand.June 1959. - Marilyn Silverstone

Kerala, fishing village of Pullivila a Catholic community south of Trivandrum.The Nair Service Society (NSS) and the Church)has founded hundreds of schools ove...

Men ploughing their flooded fields. In the background: people carrying a dead body to a funeral.

Ettamannur. People picking coconuts during the monsoon season.

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