Sources of attraction:
(i) Very cheap small books were brought to market in the 19th century.
(ii) Public libraries were set up to give an easy access to books.
(iii) Kashibaba of Kanpur published ‘chhote our bade ka sawal’ where caste and class exploitation were linked.
(iv) Sacchi kavitayen, the poems of another Kanpur mill worker who wrote under the pen name of Sudarshan chakra also attracted the mill workers towards reading printed books, since they could see their lives and sufferings reflected in such books.
(v) Bombay and Bangalore cotton mill workers set up libraries to educate themselves. These libraries were sponsored by social reformers.
