Women and Print

Q.

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

a) Women b) The poor c) Reformers

Q. Pick the women writers who hailed from present day Maharashtra:

1. Rashsundari Debi
2. Kailashbashini Debi
3. Tarabai Shinde
4. Pandita Ramabai

Q. Who said the following: “Women constitute one half of the society, and if we are left behind, how can the society progress?”

1. Rashsundari Hossain
2. Rokeya Debi
3. Rashsundari Debi
4. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Q. Statement 1: Practices like Sati were debated in newspapers.
Statement 2: This led to more commoners rejecting outdated practices.

1. Statement 1 is true and statement 2 is false
2. Statement 2 is false and statement 1 is true
3. Both statements are true
4. Both statements are false.

Q. Pop the bubbles containing the names of the women who were reformers during the 19th century in India.

1. Pandita Ramabai
2. Tarabai Shinde
3. Rashsundari Debi
4. Kailashbashini
   Debi
5. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
6. Rani Laxmibai
7. Jane Austen
8. George Eliot

Q.

Explain the visual culture (picture, calendar, cartoon etc) in print which developed in the 19th century.

Q.

Why did some people in eighteenth century Europe think that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism?