Question

What were the three difficulties in copying manuscripts ? What was the use of printing press? Describe.
OR
How the caste issue was included in novels in India ? Support your answer with suitable examples.

CBSE Class X Social Science LA (5 Marks)

Answer 1

Manuscript is very difficult to handle .it is difficult to print .it took much time.
Printing press use to make prints .

Answer 2

Difficulties in copying manuscripts were :
(i) Copying manuscript was an expensive business.
(ii) It was laborious and time-consuming.
(iii) Manuscripts themselves were fragile, awkward to handle and could not be easily carried around or read easily.
Use of printing press :
(i) It enable people to produce books at greater speed.
(ii) The production of books in large number created a new culture of reading and enlarged the number of readers.
OR
(i) Indulekha : It a hotly debated novel and the concern it addresses are of marriage practices of upper class Hindus in Kerala.
(ii) Potheri Kunjambu a ‘lower caste’ writer from North Kerala wrote ‘Saraswativijayam’ and attacked caste oppression.
(iii) Titash Ekti Nadir Naam : It was based on the fisher folk community.
(iv) Basheer was a Muslim writer with little formal education.
(v) Premchand’s ‘Rangbhoomi’ : The hero of this novel is a low caste whose land has forcibly been taken away.
(vi) ‘Godan’ : It is a story about Indian peasantry and how they are exploited.