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Print Culture and The Modern World
How by the end of the nineteenth century, a new visual culture had taken shape?
By the end of the nineteenth century, a new visual culture had taken shape:
(i)With the setting up of an increasing number of printing presses, visual images could be easily reproduced in multiple copies.
(ii)Painters like Raja Ravi Varma produced images for mass circulation.
(iii)Poor wood engravers who made woodblocks set up shop near the letterpresses, and were employed by print shops.
(iv)Cheap prints and calendars, easily available in the bazaar, could be bought even by the poor to decorate the walls of their homes or places of work.
(v)These prints began shaping popular ideas about modernity and tradition, religion and politics, and society and culture.
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What did the spread of print culture in nineteenth century India mean to:
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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:
First known printing press developed by Gutenberg in:
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