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Why were women not educated in India in the early part of the nineteenth century? Give any two reasons.
Answer:
Answer to be written in exam :
- Women were not educated because of the superstitions and myths that prevailed in the society.
- Conservative Hindus believed a literate girl would be widowed and Muslims feared educated women would be corrupted by reading Urdu romances.
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