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Question : 29
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Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follows:
Source - 1: Religious Reform and Public Debates
There were intense controversies between social and religious reformers and the Hindu orthodoxy over matters like widow immolation, monotheism, Brahmanical priesthood, and idolatry. In Bengal, as the debate developed, tracts and newspapers proliferated, circulating a variety of argument. Source-2 : New Forms of Publication
New literary forms also entered the world of reading lyrics, short stories, essays about social and political matters. In different ways, they reinforced the new emphasis on human lives and intimate feelings, about the political and social rules that shaped such things.
Source-3 : Women and Print
Since social reforms and novels had already created a great interest in women's lives and emotions, there was also an interest in what women would have to say about their own lives.
Source-1 : Religious Reform and Public Debates
(29.1) Evaluate how did the print shape the nature of the debate in the earlynineteenth century in India.
Source-2 : New Forms of Publication
(29.2) To What extent do you agree that print opened up new worlds of experience and gave a vivid sense of diversity of human lives?
Source-3 : Women and Print
(29.3) To what extent did the print culture reflect a great interest in women's lives and emotions? Explain.
Source - 1: Religious Reform and Public Debates
There were intense controversies between social and religious reformers and the Hindu orthodoxy over matters like widow immolation, monotheism, Brahmanical priesthood, and idolatry. In Bengal, as the debate developed, tracts and newspapers proliferated, circulating a variety of argument. Source-2 : New Forms of Publication
New literary forms also entered the world of reading lyrics, short stories, essays about social and political matters. In different ways, they reinforced the new emphasis on human lives and intimate feelings, about the political and social rules that shaped such things.
Source-3 : Women and Print
Since social reforms and novels had already created a great interest in women's lives and emotions, there was also an interest in what women would have to say about their own lives.
Source-1 : Religious Reform and Public Debates
(29.1) Evaluate how did the print shape the nature of the debate in the earlynineteenth century in India.
Source-2 : New Forms of Publication
(29.2) To What extent do you agree that print opened up new worlds of experience and gave a vivid sense of diversity of human lives?
Source-3 : Women and Print
(29.3) To what extent did the print culture reflect a great interest in women's lives and emotions? Explain.
Solution:
(29.1) From the early nineteenth century there were intensive debates around religious issues. Different religious groups confronted the changes happening within colonial society in different ways and offered a variety of new interpretations of the beliefs ofdifferent religions.
(29.2) The print opened up new worlds of experience and a vivid sense of diversity because of following reasons:
(i) It created a new culture of reading because earlier there was a hearing public, now a reading public came into being.
(ii) It created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas, and introduced a new world of debate and discussion.
(29.3) Earlier, women were confined of only kitchen and home. Women had no means to share their lives and emotions. Print helped in developing many women authors. Even some male authors started to write about women's lives.
(29.2) The print opened up new worlds of experience and a vivid sense of diversity because of following reasons:
(i) It created a new culture of reading because earlier there was a hearing public, now a reading public came into being.
(ii) It created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas, and introduced a new world of debate and discussion.
(29.3) Earlier, women were confined of only kitchen and home. Women had no means to share their lives and emotions. Print helped in developing many women authors. Even some male authors started to write about women's lives.
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