Question

Give an account of the literary work of Indian women authors?

Answer 1

Hint:Indian women writers contributed a lot in the development of India. They not only explained their culture and tradition to the world but also tried to highlight the negative impacts in their culture and society.

Complete answer:
The liberal families support the education of women to study or read as they believed education and reading would make the women corrupt. This led the counter reaction, as most of the oppressed women began to study and read books and learnt writing secrecy. Some literate women started to write books and their autobiographies. The spread of print culture in 19th century India benefits Indian women through learning and education.
In some languages, the early creations of women were poems, essays or autobiographical pieces. In the early decades of the twentieth century, women in south India also began writing novels and short stories. A reason for the popularity of novels among women was that it allowed for a new conception of womanhood.

Note:It is not surprising that many men were suspicious of women writing novels or reading them. This suspicion cut across communities. Hannah Mullens, a Christian missionary and the author of Karuna o Phulmonir Bibaran (1852), reputedly the first novel in Bengali, tells her readers that she wrote in secret. In the twentieth century, Sailabala Ghosh Jaya, a popular novelist, could only write because her husband protected her. As we have seen in the case of the south, women and girls were often discouraged from reading novels.