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

What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to the poor?

Accepted Answer

The spread of print culture in nineteenth century India meant the following for the poor:

Print culture bought cheap small books to markets in the nineteenth century and sold them on roads, allowing poor people to buy them. Public libraries were set up to expand access to books.

From the late nineteenth century, issues of caste discrimination started showing up in printed tracts and essays. Jyotiba Phule wrote about the injustices of the caste system in his famous book Gulamgiri which helped in bringing up issues to the forefront.

Workers in factories lacked the education to write much about their experiences. But some mill workers like Kashibaba wrote and published 'Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal' to show the links between class and caste exploitation.

Sudarshan Chakra, the poems of a Kanpur millworker were brought together and published in a collection called Sacchi Kavitayen.

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