Question

Explain how print helped the poor people to express their ideas on various issues

Answer 1

1. Very cheap small books were brought to markets in nineteenth­century Madras towns and sold at crossroads, allowing poor people traveling to markets to buy them.

2. Public libraries were set up from the early twentieth century, expanding the access to books.

3. From the late nineteenth century, issues of caste discrimination began to be written about in many printed tracts and essays. This helped in bringing these issues to the forefront of public consciousness.

4. Workers in factories were too overworked and lacked the education to write much about their experiences. But some workers took initiative to write stories about their conditions. These narratives contained issues related to class oppression. So worker’s problems also came to the fore

Answer 2

Print helped the poor people to express their ideas on various issues by the following ways-

They could buy the cheap books where they could read the thoughts of philosophers and writers, which help them in shaping the type of debates.

They could also write their own books in their languages to express their feelings and emotions.

Print helpd them to increase the literacy rate aware them that they should raise their voice against injustice.