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Answer to: Explain how the print culture assisted in the growth of nationalism in India.

Print culture assisted in the growth of nationalism in India in the following ways: (a) By the end of the 19th century, a large number of newspaper...

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Answer to: What were the effects of the spread of print culture for poor people in nineteenth-century India?

Public libraries were set up from the early twentieth century, expanding access to books. These libraries were located mostly in cities and towns and ...

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Answer to: Why did some people fear the effect of easily available printed books? Choose one example from Europe and one from India.

Some people, especially from the upper class fear the effect of easily available printed books due to the spread of literacy among the common people. ...

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Answer to: Why did some people in the eighteenth century Europe think that culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism?

(a) The spreading of new ideas after the coming of print culture, the ideas of scientists and philosophers now became more accessible to the common pe...

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Answer to: What did the spread of print culture in the nineteenth century India mean to: (a) Women (b) The poor

(a) Women: Women became as important as readers and writers. Reading habits improved among them. With an increase in literacy, women took great intere...

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Answer to: Write short notes on what you know about: (a) The Gutenberg Press (b) Erasmus’s idea of the printed book

(a) The Gutenberg Press was the first printing press of Europe. It was invented by Johannes Gutenberg of Strasbourg. He grew up in a large agricultura...

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Answer to: Give reason for the following: (a) Woodblock print only came to Europe after 1295.

(a) Marco Polo, the Italian explorer, visited China and learnt the technology of woodblock printing. When he returned to Italy in 1295, he brought thi...

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Answer to: What is lithography?

It is the process of printing from a surface i.e., from a stone or a metal plate, on which the image to be printed is ink receptive and blank area ink...

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Answer to: What was Vernacular Press Act?

Vernacular Press Act was passed to give extensive powers to the government to censor reports and editorials in Vernacular languages.

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Answer to: What were Sacchi Kavitayan?

A collection of poems by a Kanpur mill- worker under the name of Sudarshan Chakr.

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Answer to: What was the main topic of Jyotiba Phule’s book Gulamgirfi?

In his book Gulamgiri, Jyotiba Phule wrote about the injustices of the caste system.

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Answer to: What was Battalal?

It was an area, in central Calcutta which was used to print popular books.

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Answer to: Name the book published by Rama Chadha in Punjab. What was the main theme of the book?

Rama Chadha published the fast selling book Istri Dharam Vichar to teach women how to be obedient wives.

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Answer to: What issues were discussed in the early 20th century journals in India?

Women’s education, widowhood, widow remarriage and national movement.

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