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The Vernacular Press Act
The Vernacular Press Act:
(i)As vernacular newspapers became assertively nationalist, the colonial government began debating measures of stringent control. In 1878, the Vernacular Press Act was passed, modelled on the Irish Press Laws.
(ii)It provided the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press.
(iii)From now on the government kept regular track of the vernacular newspapers published in different provinces.
(iv)When a report was judged as seditious, the newspaper was warned, and if the warning was ignored, the press was liable to be seized and the printing machinery confiscated.
(v)Despite repressive measures, nationalist newspapers grew in numbers in all parts of India.
