printing press played a major role in shaping the Indian society of 19 century. analyse?
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1) even when tge vernacular act was passed people do printed nationalist newspapers and write about tge misrule of colonial power .like balagamgadhar wrote his book kesari in which he reported about punjab revolutionaries .
2 ) Print also helped in connecting people of different communities and not only stimulated the publication of conflicting opinions.
3) In north India tge Ulama used cheap lithographic presses to print religious newspapers and published Persion and Urdu translations of holy dcriptures . They feared that colonial rule would change their personal laws .
4) Raja rammohan roy published Kaumudi and wrote about the social evils at that time .The hindu orthodoxy commissioned tge Samachar Chandrika to oppose his opinions
5) Printers like raja ravi sharma drew images Bharatmata which produced a sense of nationalism among Indians .