Question

evaluate the role of print in connecting various communities in different parts of india.

Answer 1

(i) In Bengal as the debate developed, tracts and newspapers proliferated, circulating a variety of arguments.  

(ii) To reach a wider audience, the ideas were printed in the everyday spoken language of ordinary people.  

(iii) Ram Mohan Roy published the ‘Sambad Kaumudi’ from 1821 and the Hindu orthodoxy commissioned the ‘Samachar Chandrika’ to oppose his opinion.  

(iv) A wider range of people could not participate in these public discussions and express their views.  

(v) New ideas emerged through these clashes of opinions.  

(vi) Newspapers conveyed news from one place to another, creating pan-Indian identities.