Kailashbashini Debi and Tarabai Shinde both wrote about women's lives in the latter half of the nineteenth ce…

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Kailashbashini Debi and Tarabai Shinde both wrote about women's lives in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their focus was somewhat different. Compare what each of them highlighted in their writings.

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## Model Answer **Kailashbashini Debi** (from the 1860s, Bengal) focused on the oppression women faced within the household — how they were imprisoned at home, kept in ignorance, forced into hard domestic labour, and treated unjustly by the very people they served. **Tarabai Shinde** (1880s, Maharashtra) wrote with passionate anger specifically about the miserable lives of **upper-caste Hindu women, especially widows** — highlighting the particular cruelties faced by widows in Hindu society. Thus, while Kailashbashini addressed the general suffering of women in domestic life, Tarabai focused on the plight of a specific group — upper-caste widows. *Source: Chapter 5, Section 8.1 — Women and Print* --- ## Explanation - Examiners expect a **clear comparison** — name both writers, state what each highlighted, then note the difference. Don't describe only one. - The key contrast: Kailashbashini = general domestic oppression of women; Tarabai = specific suffering of upper-caste Hindu widows…

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