Question

What was the attitude of people in India in the 19th century towards women reading? How did the women



respond?

Answer 1

Women and liberal family: liberal husbands and father is big and educating their women folk at home and send them to schools women schools was set up in the cities and towns after the mid 19th century.

Women and conservatives: conservative Hindus believe that illiterate girl would be Windows and Muslims feared that educated woman would be corrected by DD Urdu romances. Kailash bhashini Devi road books highlighting the experience of women about how women wear in present at home kept in ignorance forced to do hard domestic labour and treated unjustly by the very people they serve.