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Print Culture and The Modern World
Explain the earliest print of India.
The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid-sixteenth century.
(i)Jesuit priests learnt Konkani and printed several tracts. By 1674, about 50 books had been printed in the Konkani and in Kanara languages.
(ii)Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579 at Cochin, and in 1713 the first Malayalam book was printed by them.
(iii)By 1710, Dutch Protestant missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts, many of them translations of older works.
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What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to:
The poor
What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to:
Reformers
Why did some people in eighteenth century Europe think that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism?
Why did some people fear the effect of easily available printed books? Choose one example from Europe and one from India.
What were the effects of the spread of print culture for poor people in nineteenth century India?
Explain how print culture assisted the growth of nationalism in India.
Where was the earliest kind of print technology developed?
For what purpose, the earliest textbooks were printed in China?
What is vellum?
Kitagawa Utamarao born in Edo in:
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