Athavale has also taught Sanskrit in the form of verses to illiterate villagers and trained many people of all castes in the Vedic thoughts.

There he comes across a local landlord (Vijayan) who cheats the illiterate villagers by giving them loans and later taking over their property.

They lure the credulous, illiterate villagers into sending their daughters to work at the factories from dawn to much after dusk.

Some of the most fascinating parts of the piece chronicle researchers' work with newly literate and illiterate villagers in very remote places, like rural Uzbekistan.

He seems equally natural playing an illiterate villager or a powerful intellectual.

The whitewashed schoolhouse, set among bamboo trees, was a foreign place for the mostly illiterate villagers.

No investigation had taken place, and Ms Mai was already both an international heroine and wealthier than any illiterate villager from a wretched Indus backwater could have ever dreamed.

For the illiterate villager in an agricultural society of the past, most of the incoming messages were what might be called casual or "do-it-yourself" communications.

Conservation groups and wildlife officials in India have taken steps to prevent wanton killing of birds across India, creating awareness in the illiterate villagers.

During a gathering, two illiterate spiritual villagers pick up the deity and write as if possessed.