Question

What were the different reasons people had for not sending girls to school?

Answer 1

• Many reformers in Bombay and Vidyasagar in Calcutta set up schools for girls.
• Many people were afraid of schools when the first schools were opened in the mid-nineteenth century.
• People feared that schools would prevent girls from fulfilling their domestic duties.
• People were of the opinion that girls must keep away from public spaces.
• People feared that as girls had to travel through public spaces to reach schools, it would end up having a corrupting influence on them.
• People feared that girls would be taken away from their homes because of schools.
• Hence, throughout the nineteenth century most educated women were taught at home by liberal husbands or fathers.
• Some of the women were also self taught.