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(a) - (iii) (b) - (v) (c) - (iv) (d) - (i) (e) - (ii)
True, ‘Bengal Gazette’ the weekly magazine was brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya.
False, American explorer Marco Polo brought back the knowledge of printing to Italy.
False, Monnocchio said “The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress”.
True, Vellum is the parchment made of animal skin.
True, Amar Jiban was the autobiography written by Rashsundari Debi.
Johann Gutenberg
Rashsundari Debi
Erasmus was the Latin scholar who expressed deep anxiety about printed book.
Skilled hand writers were known as scribes.
(b) The link between caste and class exploitation.
(d) He published gossip about senior East India Company officials.
(b) The Vernacular Act was passed by the British government to put some check on vernacular newspapers which had become assertively nationalist.
(c) Cheap books were brought out which the poor people could afford to buy and read.
(b) Louise Sebastien Mercier
(a) Mid 16th century
(d) Print popularized the ideas of enlightened; thinkers who attacked the despotic power of the State.
(a) It was feared that if there was no control over what was printed and read, then rebellious and irreligious thoughts might spread.
(d) Johann Gutenberg, Germany