10th Class Social Science Print Culture and the Modern World Question Bank 10th CBSE Social Science Print Culture and the Modern World

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      Who brought the print revolution to British India and how?

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                      (i) James Augustus Hickey began to edit the 'Bengal Gazette', a weekly magazine. (ii) It was a private English magazine, not having British influence on it, which introduced English printing in India. (iii) Hickey published a lot of advertisements, on import and sale of slaves. He also published gossips about the company's senior officials in India. Enraged by this, Governor General Warren Hastings persecuted Hickey


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