Name: The Spread of Literary Forms Across India
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 6 s
Description: The emergence of print led to many different literary forms, and new ideas about society and culture spreading across India

Question

Look at the given images carefully and answer the given questions.

IMAGE 1

IMAGE 2

IMAGE 3

What comment are the artists making on the social changes taking place in society through these images?
What changes in society were taking place to provoke this reaction?
Do you agree with the artist’s view?

Accepted Answer

(a) In the first image, a man is dominated by his wife, and he is dominating his mother. Artist comments that the tradition of mother-in-law dominating the daughter-in-law through her son has reversed, due to the new social changes taking place.
(b) In the second image, the part between men and women has turned around as women appreciate hookah and a man plays the veena in order to entertain his wife.
(c) In the third image, the artist depicts that social changes do not affect English families, and it shows traditional family roles.

The changes such as cultural upliftment and empowerment of women through the westernised systems of education taking place in the society. All these changes provoked artists to depict such images of families specifically in India.

The artist’s view in the given images about the empowerment of women is way more extreme than the actual situation. The images are out of focus or over assumed. The artist could have taken a moderate stand in their comments on the social changes taking place in Indian society.

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