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Provide evidence… (Class 10 Social Science SQP 2023-24, Q25)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Sample paper, session 2023-24 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science sample paper 2023-24: question 25

From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2023-24, section C, question 25, for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q25 · 3 marks · Short answerPrint Culture and the Modern World

Provide evidence to support the claim that print culture had a significant impact on the social lives of women in India?

Source: official sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in (PDF). See it in the full Sample paper 2023-24.

Hints

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Hint 1

Think about what printed books and magazines gave women who could not leave their homes.

Hint 2

Recall women writers like Rashsundari Debi.

Hint 3

Which women wrote about the plight of widows in Maharashtra?

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. Print culture gave women access to knowledge, and women's books, magazines and newspapers let them voice views on education, social reform and women's rights. Liberal fathers and husbands began educating women at home and sending them to schools.

    1 mark

  2. Women became writers. Rashsundari Debi, an orthodox East Bengal housewife, secretly learnt to read in her kitchen and wrote 'Amar Jiban' (1876), the first full-length Bengali autobiography. Kailashbashini Debi wrote about women being kept in ignorance and forced into domestic labour.

    1 mark

  3. In Maharashtra, Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai wrote about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women, especially widows. Print thus awakened social consciousness and advanced women's empowerment.

    1 mark

Answer: Print gave women education, a voice and authorship, as shown by Rashsundari Debi, Kailashbashini Debi, Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai.

Where the marks are

  • Women gained access to reading, schooling and a platform for expression (1 mark)
  • Example of a woman writer, such as Rashsundari Debi or Kailashbashini Debi (1 mark)
  • Further example (Tarabai Shinde, Pandita Ramabai) and the resulting awakening (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Print Culture and the Modern World, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paperSample paper 2023-24: every question, by section.

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