What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to Women.
Print culture in nineteenth century India meaning to Women:
(i)Lives and feelings of women began to be written in particularly vivid and intense ways. Women’s reading, therefore, increased enormously in middle-class homes.
(ii)Liberal husbands and fathers began educating their womenfolk at home, and sent them to schools when women’s schools were set up in the cities and towns after the mid-nineteenth century.
(iii)Many journals began carrying writings by women, and explained why women should be educated.
(iv)They also carried a syllabus and attached suitable reading matter which could be used for home-based schooling.
(v)Since social reforms and novels had already created a great interest in women’s lives and emotions, there was also an interest in what women would have to say about their own lives.
