print and censorship
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In print and censorship the main points are:
- By the 1820's the Calcutta Supreme Court passed certain regulations to control press freedom.
- In 1835 governor general bentinck faced urgent petitions by editors of English and Vernacular news papers. He agreed to revise press laws. Thomas Macaulay a liberal colonial official, formulated new rules that restored the Earlier freedoms
Press after the revolt of 1857:
- After the revolt of 1857, the attitude to freedom of the press changed. As Vernacular newspaper become assertively nationalist, the colonial government began debating measures of strict control.
- In 1878 the Vernacular Press Act was passed which provided the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the Vernacular Press.
- Finally Bal Gangadhar Tilak wrote the great sympathy about the Punjab revolutionaries who excelled in 1907,in his newspaper "Kesari". This lead to his imprisonment in 1908.Then it provoked widespread protests all over India.