Describe any three major impacts of the spreading of print culture for Indian poor people in nineteenth century.
Very cheap small books were brought to markets in nineteenth century to Madras towns and sold at cross roads allowing poor people travelling to markets to buy them.
- Public libraries were set up from early twentieth century, expanding the access to books.
- Gradually, issues of caste discriminations began to the written about in many printed tracts and essays.
- Workers in factories were too overworked and lacked the education to write much about their experiences.
- Jyotiba Phule, the Maratha pioneer in ‘low caste’ protest movements, wrote about the injustices of the caste system in his ‘Gulamgiri’.