History

Print Culture and the Modern World

Question:

How the growth of print culture lead to women empowerment ? Explain.

Answer:

(i) Women became important as readers as well as writers. Penny magazines were especially meant for women, as were manuals teaching proper behaviour and housekeeping. When hovels began to be written in the nineteenth century, women were seen as important readers. Some of the best-known novelists were women : Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot. Their writings became important in defining a new type of woman: A person with will, strength of personality, determination and the power to think.
(ii) Social reformers and novels created a great interest in women's lives and emotions, there was also an interest in what women would have to say about their own lives. From the 1860s, a few Bengali women like Kailashbashini Debi wrote books highlighting the experiences of women-about how women were imprisoned at home, kept in ignorance, forced to do hard domestic labour and treated unjustly by the very people they served. In the 1880s, in present-day Maharashtra, Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai wrote with passionate anger about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women, especially widows. A woman in a Tamil novel expressed what reading meant to women who were so greatly novel confined by social regulations : ‘For various reasons, my world is small … More than half my life's happiness has come from books.
(iii) While Urdu, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi print culture had developed early, Hindi printing began seriously only from the 1870s. Soon, a large segment of it was devoted to the education of women. In the early twentieth century, journals, written for and sometimes edited by women, became extremely popular. They discussed issues like women's education, widowhood, widow remarriage and the national movement. Some of them offered household and fashion lessons to women and brought entertainment through short stories and serialised novels.

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Print Culture and the Modern World

Q 1.

What is calligraphy ?

Q 2.

Name the first Weekly that appeared in India. Who bought it out ? (CBSE 2014)

Q 3.

Name the printing presses which published numerous religious texts in vernaculars from the 1880s.

Q 4.

Who started publishing Sambad Kaumudi from 1821?

Q 5.

How was sale of books promoted in small towns?

Q 6.

Which material was used to print pictures in Japan?

Q 7.

What is manuscript ?

Q 8.

Who was Martin Luther ?

Q 9.

Who wrote Gulamgiri ? (CBSE 2014)

Q 10.

What was Vernacular Press Act ? (CBSE 2014)

Q 11.

Explain the main features of the first printed Bible. [CBSE Sept. 2010]
Or
Describe any three main features of the first printed Bible. [CBSE 2014]

Q 12.

How did printing press create a new- reading public ? Explain. [CBSF. Sept. 2013]
Or
"There was a virtual reading mania in European countries in the 18th century". Explain the factors responsible for this virtual reading mania.

Q 13.

Print popularised the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers.' Explain. [CBSE 2014]
Or
How did ideas about science, reason and rationality find their way into popular literature in the 18th century Europe ?  [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 14.

Write a brief note on Martin Luther.

Q 15.

What is calligraphy?

Q 16.

What was print revolution ?

Q 17.

Who printed the first Tamil book ?

Q 18.

Explain how the print culture assisted the growth of nationalism in India. [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]

Q 19.

Trace the growth and development of print technology.
Or
How had the earliest print technology developed in the world ? Explain.

Q 20.

How had the earliest printing technology developed in the world ? Explain. [CBSE 2012]

Q 21.

How did the print revolution influence the reading habit of the people of Europe?

Q 22.

Give a brief description of the first form of print technology.

Q 23.

Which is the oldest book to be printed in Japan ?

Q 24.

Who were scribes ?

Q 25.

Who developed the first printing press ?

Q 26.

What were Chap books ? (CBSE 2014)

Q 27.

Name any two women novelist of the 19th century.

Q 28.

Name the paper with which Bal Gangadhar Tilak was associated.

Q 29.

Study the given paragraph and answer the following questions that follow :
Liberty of speech…. liberty of the press freedom of association. The government of India is now seeking to crush the three powerful vehicles of expressing and cultivating public opinion. The fight for Swaraj, for Khilafat …. means a fight for this threatened freedom before all else ….'
(i) Who said these words ?

(ii) Name the freedoms he is talking about.

Q 30.

Why were the printed books popular even among illiterate people ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2012]

Q 31.

The shift from handprinting to mechanical printing led to the print revolution.’ Explain.

Q 32.

State any three points of importance of penny chapbooks. [CBSE Sept. 2010.2011]
Or
Describe some of the new printed books which were sold by the pedlars in villages in the eighteenth century Europe.  [CBSE-2012, 2014]

Q 33.

What medium was used for writing ancient Indian scriptures?

Q 34.

Who brought out the first Indian newspaper published in English?

Q 35.

Give a brief description of the first form of print technology.

Q 36.

Explain the role of print in the religious reforms in India. [CBSE 2011]

Q 37.

Describe the issue of caste as taken by the novelists in India. [CBSE 2013]

Q 38.

Who was the major producer of printed material in China ? For what purpose this material was used ?

Q 39.

What were ballads ? (CBSE 2014)

Q 40.

What was the role of cartoons and caricatures in the French Revolution ?

Q 41.

Name the first weekly that appeared in India. Who brought it out ? (CBSE 2014)

Q 42.

Why did Governor General Warren Hastings persecute Hickey ?

Q 43.

Who wrote Istri Dharam Vichar ?

Q 44.

Name an Act which was passed by the British government to keep a regular track of the vernacular newspapers.

Q 45.

Write about the different innovations in the printing technology during the 19th century ? [CBSE Sept. 2010]

Q 46.

Analyse the impact of print revolution on religion. [CJBS £ 2012]

Q 47.

Why did some people in eighteenth century Europe think that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism?

Q 48.

How did Gutenberg personalise the printed hooks suiting to the tastes and requirement of others ? [CBSE 2012]

Q 49.

Who was Marco Polo?

Q 50.

Who invented the letter press?