What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to:
The poor
Print and the Poor People:
(i)Very cheap small books were brought to markets in nineteenth-century Madras towns and sold at crossroads, allowing poor people travelling to markets to buy them.
(ii)Local protest movements and sects also created a lot of popular journals and tracts criticising ancient scriptures and envisioning a new and just future.
(iii)Kashibaba, a Kanpur millworker, wrote and published Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal in 1938 to show the links between caste and class exploitation.
(iv)The poems of another Kanpur millworker, who wrote under the name of Sudarshan Chakr between 1935 and 1955, were brought together and published in a collection called Sacchi Kavitayan.
(v)By the 1930s, Bangalore cotton millworkers set up libraries to educate themselves, following the example of Bombay workers.
