(2022-2023)
CBSE Chapter 5
Class: 10th CBSE
Ch: 5 Print Culture and the Modern World
NCERT History, Long answer type of questions
Important Question SST
Ch:5 History Important Questions for board
Extra Questions For CBSE Board and Other State Board
Explain about the Women written by the Kailashbashini Debi?
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From the 1860s, a few Bengali women like Kailashbashini Debi wrote books highlighting the experiences of women – about how women were imprisoned at home, kept in ignorance, forced to do hard domestic labour and treated unjustly by the very people they served. In the1880s, in present-day Maharashtra, Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai wrote with passionate anger about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women, especially widows. A woman in a Tamil novel expressed what reading meant to women who were so greatly confined by social regulations: ‘For various reasons, my world is small … More than half my life’s happiness has come from books …’