Social Studies SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS(3 Mark)

The imperial State in China was the major producer of printed material because of the following reasons :
a. China possessed a huge bureaucratic system which recruited its personnel through civil services examination.
b. Textbooks for this examination were printed in large number, under the sponsorship of the imperial state.
c. From the sixteenth century, the number of candidates taking the examination went up and that increased the volume of print.

The two women writers of India in the 19th century were Kailashbashini Debi and Tarabai Shinde. Their contributions are highlighted below :
i. Kailashbashini Debi wrote books highlighting the experiences of women. Kailashbhashini wrote about how women were imprisoned at home, kept in ignorance, forced to do hard domestic labour and treated unjustly by the very people they served.
ii. Tarabai Shinde narrated the plight of upper-caste Hindu women, especially the widows.