Question

Vernacular press act was seen to have been provoked by which publication in particular?

Answer 1

Vernacular press act was provoked by the failure of Gagging Act by Lord Canning which was not enough to control nationalist writings in regional newspapers.

The nationalist writings in the Bengali newspaper Amrita Bazaar Patrika provoked the British Official Sir Ashley Eden, the Lieutenant governor of Bengal.

He along with Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot drafted the vernacular press act.