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CLASS 10 · SOCIAL STUDIES · CHAPTER 5

Print Culture and the Modern World

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Question 1

Why did some Europeans in the eighteenth century think print would bring enlightenment and end despotism?

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Print spread new ideas and encouraged people to question authority and despotism.

Answer

Print spread new ideas and encouraged people to question authority and despotism.

Question 2

Why did some people fear easily available printed books? Give one example from Europe and India.

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Authorities feared challenges: the Church’s Index in Europe and colonial press controls in India.

Answer

Authorities feared challenges: the Church’s Index in Europe and colonial press controls in India.

Question 3

What effects did print culture have on poor people in nineteenth-century India?

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Cheap print and public readings widened access to information and reform ideas, despite literacy barriers.

Answer

Cheap print and public readings widened access to information and reform ideas, despite literacy barriers.

Question 4

How did print culture help the growth of nationalism in India?

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Print spread nationalist ideas, reported colonial injustice and connected people; censorship tried to restrict it.

Answer

Print spread nationalist ideas, reported colonial injustice and connected people; censorship tried to restrict it.

Question 5

Describe major changes in print technology over the last 100 years and their effects.

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Digital typesetting and online publishing made printing faster, cheaper and more widely available.

Answer

Digital typesetting and online publishing made printing faster, cheaper and more widely available.

Question 6

Give reasons: (a) woodblock print reached Europe after 1295; (b) Luther praised print; (c) the Church created an Index of Prohibited Books; (d) Gandhi linked Swaraj with press freedom.

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(a) Knowledge came through Marco Polo. (b) Print spread reform ideas. (c) Church sought to control dissent. (d) Press freedom helped people organise for Swaraj.

Answer

(a) Knowledge came through Marco Polo. (b) Print spread reform ideas. (c) Church sought to control dissent. (d) Press freedom helped people organise for Swaraj.

Question 7

Write short notes on Gutenberg’s press, Erasmus’s view of printed books and the Vernacular Press Act.

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Gutenberg’s movable type sped printing; Erasmus feared low-quality books; the 1878 Act censored Indian-language newspapers.

Answer

Gutenberg’s movable type sped printing; Erasmus feared low-quality books; the 1878 Act censored Indian-language newspapers.

Question 8

What did print culture mean to women, poor people and reformers in nineteenth-century India?

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Women gained new reading and writing opportunities; cheap print reached the poor; reformers spread debate and change.

Answer

Women gained new reading and writing opportunities; cheap print reached the poor; reformers spread debate and change.

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