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Conservatives believed that education and reading would make women , or corrupt them. Many women learnt to read and write in secret in such traditionalist environments.

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The above statement is true;
Women's lives and emotions started to be expressed in vivid and emotional ways. Thus, reading by women significantly rose in middle-class households. Liberal fathers and husbands began educating and enrolling their wives in schools at home. However, not all households were liberal. Conservative Hindus thought that an educated girl would become a widow, and Muslims worried that reading Urdu romances would corrupt educated women. Rebellious women occasionally disobeyed such restrictions. There was intrigue in what women would have to say about their own lives because social changes and books had already sparked a lot of interest in the lives and feelings of women.

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