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New York: Oxford University Press. United Nations Development Programme. 1999. Human development report 1999. New York: Oxford University Press. United Nations Development Programme. 2006. Human development report 2006. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2 The Transition to Mass Literacy Comparative Insights from Sweden and Pakistan Haris Gazdar INTRODUCTION This chapter argues that comparing Sweden’s transition to mass literacy with the experience of developing states such as Pakistan produces some useful insights into their respective historical processes of social development.
16 It is interesting to note that the types of religious and theological impulses that are thought to have contributed to mass education (and then social development) in Sweden have been present in various forms in Pakistan. Two of the essential features of the Lutheran movement—stress on individual knowledge of religion and piety, and the use of local languages—were present in different (sometimes opposing) strands of religious currents in Pakistan. Moreover, the “Islamic revivalists” of present-day Pakistan have much in common with the Lutherans of seventeenth-century Sweden.
The public sphere is the domain of males from across families and kinship groups. Females have only restricted access to the public domain, and that access too is regulated by the presence of males from their family. Non-family males have no access to the private domain. This gendered public–private division is not discrete but represents a continuum. The homestead is exclusively private, and the market might be exclusively public. But between the homestead and the market there are many other spaces that represent broader domains of association than the homestead—such as compound, locality, or village—which are accessible to women and men alike.