how far print culture is responsible for french revolution?give some arguments in favour of it?
Answers
Print popularized the ideas of the enlightenment thinkers
Print created a new culture of dailogue and debate
By 1780s there was an outpouring of literature that mocked the royalty and crticised their morality
Print culture is responsible for French Revolution in the following ways :
(i) In Bengal many historical novels were about Marathas and Rajputs which produced a sense of a Pan-Indian belonging.
(ii) They imagined the nation to be full of adventure, heroism, romance and sacrifice.
(iii) Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay's Anguriya Binimoy (1857) was the first historical novel written in Bengal whose hero Shivaji engaged in many battles against a clever and treacherous Aurangzeb.
(iv) The imagined nation of the novel was so powerful that it could inspire actual political movements.
(v) Bankim's 'Artandmath' is a novel about a secret Hindu armed force that fight Muslims to establish a Hindu Kingdom.
(vi) It was a novel that inspired freedom fighters.
(vii) The novel helped in popularising the sense of belonging to a common nation.