NCERT Important Questions Class 10 Social Science Chapter 5
Important NCERT Extra Questions
Chapter 5 Print Culture and The Modern World
NCERT Book Extra Questions for Session 2022-2023
CBSE Board and UP Board Others state Board
Examine the role of missionaries in the growth of press in India.
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(i) The printing press came to India with Portuguese missionaries in Goa in the mid sixteenth century. Jesuit priests learnt Konkani and printed several tracts. By 1674, about 50 books had been printed in Konkani and Kannara languages.
(ii) Books in different languages were printed as given below:
(a) In 1579 – First Tamil book was printed by Catholic priests at Cochin.
(b) In 1713 – Printing of first Malayalam book.
(c) By 1710 – Dutch Protestant missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts, many of them were translations from older works”
(iii) English printing: (a) English printing began with the Bengal Gazette from 1780 by James Augustus Hickey.
(b) By the end of eighteenth century. a number of newspapers and journals were being printed.
(c) Indians too began to purplish newspaper. Weekly Bengal Gazette was the first to be brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya.