Print Culture Colloquim With Sharmila Sreekumar

This talk reconstructs the biography of the first public library of a region that is today in Kerala, India. The “public” emerges as a critical zone where social struggles, governmental policies and people’s aspirations collide and negotiate. Meanwhile, intriguing turns of events make the library a converging point for a broad range of socioeconomic and institutional changes. And “going public” becomes not one event but an ongoing encounter.