Question

describe the new forms of publications in India??​

Answer 1

New Forms of Publication

1. The novel, a literary firm which had developed in Europe, ideally catered to this need. It soon acquired distinctively Indian forms and styles. For readers, it opened up new worlds of experience, and gave a vivid sense of the diversity of human lives.
2. Other new literary forms also entered the world of reading were lyrics, short stories, essays about social and political matters. Indifferent ways, they reinforced the new emphasis on human lives and intimate feelings, about the political and social rules that shaped such things.
3. By the end of the nineteenth century, a new visual culture was taking shape. Visual images were reproduced in multiple copies. Painters like Raja Ravi Varma produced images for mass circulation.
4. By the 1870s, caricatures and cartoons were being published in journals and newspapers, commenting on social and political issues. Some caricatures ridiculed the educated Indians’ fascination with Western tastes and clothes, while others expressed the fear of social change.

Answer 2

•New forms of writings such as short stories, lyrics and essays on political and cultural lives began to be published.

•The printing press also enabled the reproduction of visual images.