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Women were subjugated to lots of censure about their public appearance and behavior. The colonial cities had some developments such as bazaars, horse-cards, motors, roads etc.
There were new transport facilities such as horse-drawn carriages and, subsequently, trams and buses meant that women could visit long distance places from the city centre. These were used not only by the English women but also upper class Indian women. Though lower class women still did not have access to such facilities.
The new urban cities had centers for shopping, theatres etc. Though there was resistance but upper class wives of educated Indians used to go for watching cinema occasionally.
The social reformers also pressed for education of women and thus they opened women?s colleges in the new urban centers during nineteenth century and some women expressed themselves through journals, books and autobiographies.
Example: Madras Medical College in 1835 the Women?s Christian Medical College, an exclusive medical school for women, was established in Ludhiana in Punjab in 1894.
Though, this opportunity was enjoyed by only a fraction of women. Many people resented these attempts to change traditional patriarchal norms.
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