Vidyasagar in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and many other reformers in Bombay. (now Mumbai) set up schools for girls.

•  When the first schools were opened in the mid-nineteenth century, many people were afraid of them.
• They feared that schools would take girls away from home.
• They would prevent them from doing their domestic duties.
• Girls had to travel through public places in order to reach school. This would have a corrupting influence on them.
• GMs should stay away from public spaces.