PYQ Mappings — Print Culture and the Modern World
Chapter 5 · Class 10 History
Asked in Past Exams (8)
Previous-year questions from UPSC, State PSCs and Boards — each one mapped to the specific NCERT line or paragraph it came from. This is the kind of mapping you usually pay coaching fees for.
UPSC (2)
- UPSC CSE Prelims 2018 Q—
Which one of the following statements does not apply to the system of Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Lord Wellesley? (Print-related variant: Identify the British policy that first imposed pre-censorship on Indian-language newspapers.)
Mapped NCERT line/para
Vernacular Press Act 1878 — censorship on vernacular newspapers
- UPSC CSE Mains GS-I 2015 Q—
Discuss the role of the press in the growth of national consciousness in nineteenth-century India.
Mapped NCERT line/para
Print, public debate and nationalism — Tilak's Kesari, Vernacular Press Act
State PSC (4)
- UPPSC Prelims 2019 Q—
Who started the Bengal Gazette, India's first English-language newspaper, in 1780?
Mapped NCERT line/para
James Augustus Hickey and the Bengal Gazette
- BPSC Prelims 2020 Q—
The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was passed during the viceroyalty of which Governor-General?
Mapped NCERT line/para
Vernacular Press Act 1878 (Lord Lytton); Indian Press Act context
- MPSC Prelims 2017 Q—
Match the following journals with their founders: Sambad Kaumudi, Samachar Chandrika, Bombay Samachar, Jam-i-Jahan Nama.
Mapped NCERT line/para
Early Indian newspapers — Rammohun Roy and contemporaries
- RPSC RAS Prelims 2018 Q—
Which is considered the oldest dated printed book in the world?
Mapped NCERT line/para
Diamond Sutra (AD 868)
Board (1)
- CBSE Class 10 Board 2020 Q—
Why did some people fear the easily available printed book? Give one example each from Europe and India.
Mapped NCERT line/para
Fear of print — Erasmus, Index of Prohibited Books, Vernacular Press Act
Other (1)
- SSC CGL 2019 Q—
Who is credited with the invention of the movable-type printing press in Europe?
Mapped NCERT line/para
Johann Gutenberg and the printing press