Women's question, press and arts

The women's question, the press and the arts were linked sites of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century change: reformers debated women's education and rights in print, women themselves began to write and organise, and artists reworked tradition for a new public. The campaign against sati, culminating in its abolition in 1829, is a concrete starting point, but the story continues through widow remarriage, girls' schools, women's journals and the entry of women into the nationalist movement. The press was the medium that made these debates national.