What is “Kerala Model”?
The Kerala model refers to a set of economic practices developed in India’s state of Kerala. These practices have resulted in the state attaining a high level of standards in human development, while compromising on its industrial development. This anomaly of high social development despite economic backwardness, is variously known as the Kerala model, or the Kerala phenomenon. The unique demographic profile of the state as well as historical factors associated with the state’s intervention have been considered to be responsible for this phenomenon. Kerala is the first state in India having near 100% literacy. Kerala was exposed to peaceful trade with the outside world long before the British arrived. Of all the subtle corrosives that broke down the old order and gave rise to the new Kerala, to an extent unprecedented and as yet unmatched in the Third World. The Aryan law of the land prohibited backward class from education. The Pallikkoodams started by Christian Missionaries pave way
