Question

Why printing press is called as most powerful engine of progress and public opinion?

Answer 1

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printing press played a major role in shaping the Indian society of the 19th Century. The impacts of print culture on the Indian society and religion :-

▶ From the early 19th century, there where intense debates around the religious issues.

▶ Newspaper is printed new ideas and also save the nature of debate.

▶ in the early 19th century, and in an intense controversy between social and religious reformer and the Hindu orthodoxy section emerge.

▶ in North India, the Ulama used cheap lithographic process to print religious newspapers and published the person and Urdu translations of holy scriptures they said that Colonial rule would change their personal laws.

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Answer 2

By the mid­eighteenth century, there was a common conviction that books were a means of spreading progress and enlightenment. Many believed that books could change the world, liberate society from despotism and tyranny, and herald a time when reason and intellect would rule. Louise­Sebastien Mercier, a novelist in eighteenth­century France, declared: ‘The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress and public opinion is the force that will sweep despotism away.’ Reading was seen as a revolutionary habit. In many of Mercier’s novels, the heroes are transformed by acts of reading. They devour books, are lost in the world books create, and become enlightened in the process. Convinced of the power of print in bringing enlightenment and destroying the basis of despotism, Mercier proclaimed: ‘Tremble, therefore, tyrants of the world! Tremble before the virtual writer!’