WHY NEWSPAPERS? Bombay Telegraph and Courier, 6 January 1849 'Krishnaji Trimbuck Ranade inhabitant of Poona intends to publish a Newspaper in the Marathi Language with a view of affording us
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PRINT AND VISUAL CULTURE Printing created an appetite for new kinds of writing. As more and more people could now read, they wanted to see their own lives, experiences, emotions and relationships r
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WOMEN AND PRINT Lives and feelings of women began to be written in particularly vivid and intense ways. Women’s reading, therefore, increased enormously in middle-class homes. Liberal husband
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PRINT AND THE POOR PEOPLE Very cheap small books were brought to markets in nineteenth-century Madras towns and sold at crossroads, allowing poor people travelling to markets to buy them. Public li
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