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Dr. P. Gopinadhan Pillai is currently Senior Project Officer in the Centre for Adult Continuing Education and Extension, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. He has previously taught at Coaching Centre for Civil Service Examinations, Government of Kerala, and been a Lecturer in Sociology in the Related Instruction Centre, Government of Kerala. The United Writer's Association of India awarded its Fellowship (FUWAI) to him for outstanding contribution in educational thought and culture. Dr. Pillai took his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology and later post-Master's Diploma in Adult Continuing Education from the University of Kerala. He has published 92 research papers in scholarly journals and one book entitled Continuing Education: The Kerala Experiment and presented papers in national and State-level seminars and conferences. He is a Life Member of the Indian Sociological Society and the Indian Adult Education Association. He has successfully guided half a dozen research studies. He evaluated the total literacy and post-literacy campaign for seven districts in South India. He has also actively participated in All India Radio programmes on education and industry. He has completed two more books on Left Movement and Agrarian Relations and Studies in Adult and Continuing Education. His areas of interest are Social Movement, Left Movement and Agrarian Relations, Higher Education, NLM and Adult Continuing Education and Extension.