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

With increase in literacy, women took great interest in reading and writing. Many journals started emphasizing the importance of women’s education. Many magazines and books were specially published for women. The print culture gave the women some amount of freedom to read and develop their own views on various issues, especially those related to women. Women novelists such as Jane Austen and Bronte sisters in Europe and Kailashbashini Debi and Pandita Ramabai in India presented the new type of woman.Liberal husbands and fathers educated their womenfolk at home or sent them to schools for women. Women who had been restricted to a domestic life for generations, now found a new medium of entertainment. They also began to write articles for journals, in favour of women's education and literacy. Some even wrote books; Rashsundari  autobiography Amar Jibanâ was the first full-length autobiography, published in 1876. Conservatives believed that education and reading would make women widows, or corrupt them.

 Women became important as readers and writers. Reading habits improved among them. With increase in literacy, women took great interest in reading and writing. Many journals started emphasizing the importance of women’s education. Many magazines and books were specially published for women. The print culture gave the women some amount of freedom to read and develop their own views on various issues, especially those related to women. Women novelists such as Jane Austen and Bronte sisters in Europe and Kailashbashini Debi and Pandita Ramabai in India presented the new type of woman, a woman with the power to think and with the ability to act with determination.