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PYQ Mappings — Print Culture and the Modern World

Chapter 5 · Class 10 History

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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)

  1. 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

  2. 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)

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  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)

  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

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