Question

Analyze the colonial influence on printing in India with example

Answer 1

Answer:

Printing in India was largely governed by colonial influence-

1. People used to print journals inciting the feelings of nationalism among the fellow citizens

2. Certain newspapers like kesari came into being to spread nationalism

3. Vernacular press act was passed in 1858 to control the printing press of India and seize the press if anything against the company was printed but this had an opposite effect on the citizens

4. Apart from these certain visual images were printed in vast numbers so that illiterate could also be convinced of the mainstream nationalism

5 cartoons and caricatures were printed condemning the practices of the British people

Answer 2

• India has a old tradition of handwritten manuscripts. But these were awkward to handle and was available only to the some people. it was also difficult to study from these.
• Students were taught by teachers who dictated portions from memory. many thus became literates without reading any scripts.
• The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. there were several Konkani and Kanara tracts.
• Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579 at Cochin and later printed Malayalam in 1713.
• From 1780, James Augustus Hickey started to edit Bengal Gazette. Hickey called it as 'a commercial paper open to all but influenced by none'. Though Augustus printed lot of advertisements and information about slave trade, there were also gossips about the company's senior officials.
• Enraged, governer general Warren Hastings persecuted Hickey and sanctioned newspapers that could counter the flow of info that damaged the image of the colonial government.

• later, there were Indian newspapers by the end of eighteenth century and the first to appear was Bengal Gazette, brought out by Gangadhar Battacharya.