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Which two materials were Indian manuscripts usually copied on?Read the answer and worked solution →In pre-colonial Bengal, what did students learn without reading?Read the answer and worked solution →Which European group first brought the printing press to Goa?Read the answer and worked solution →Which weekly did James Augustus Hickey begin to edit from 1780?Read the answer and worked solution →Which newspaper did Rammohun Roy publish from 1821?Read the answer and worked solution →Which newspaper did orthodox Hindus commission to oppose Rammohun Roy's opinions?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Gujarati newspaper made its appearance in 1822?Read the answer and worked solution →In which language did Krishnaji Trimbuck Ranade plan to publish his Poona newspaper in 1849?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the Deoband Seminary founded?Read the answer and worked solution →Which religious poem by Tulsidas, a sixteenth-century author, was printed in Calcutta in 1810?Read the answer and worked solution →Which press at Lucknow published many vernacular religious texts from the 1880s?Read the answer and worked solution →Which painter made mythological works printed in large numbers for mass circulation?Read the answer and worked solution →Rashsundari Debi's Amar Jiban was the first full-length autobiography published in which language?Read the answer and worked solution →From which decade did Hindi printing begin to develop seriously?Read the answer and worked solution →Which fast-selling booklet by Ram Chaddha taught women to be obedient wives?Read the answer and worked solution →Which area of central Calcutta was devoted to printing popular books?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Kanpur millworker published Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal in 1938?Read the answer and worked solution →On which laws was the Vernacular Press Act of 1878 modelled?Read the answer and worked solution →What could the 1878 Vernacular Press Act do to a defiant newspaper?Read the answer and worked solution →During the First World War, how many newspapers had to furnish securities?Read the answer and worked solution →Of the 22 newspapers ordered to furnish securities, how many shut down rather than comply?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many newspapers were suppressed in August 1942?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the Defence of India Act allow during the war?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi said in 1922 that Swaraj meant defending which three freedoms?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Governor-General agreed in 1835 to revise the press laws after petitions from editors?Read the answer and worked solution →Before 1798, censorship measures targeted which critics?Read the answer and worked solution →Which body in China printed examination textbooks in vast numbers for its civil service?Read the answer and worked solution →Who introduced hand-printing into Japan around AD 768 to 770?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the Inquisition, a Roman Catholic court, meant to do?Read the answer and worked solution →Which word describes speech or writing seen as opposing the government?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which two materials were Indian manuscripts usually copied on?

  1. Bamboo or carved stone slabs
  2. Animal skin or papyrus rolls
  3. Palm leaves or handmade paper
  4. Clay tablets or bronze sheets
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Correct answer: C. Palm leaves or handmade paper

Indian manuscripts were written on palm leaves or handmade sheets, often with decorative illustrations.

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In pre-colonial Bengal, what did students learn without reading?

  1. Recite Vedic hymns
  2. Write what was dictated
  3. Paint manuscript borders
  4. Calculate trade interest
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Correct answer: B. Write what was dictated

Teachers dictated portions from memory, so students learned to copy them down without reading them.

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Which European group first brought the printing press to Goa?

  1. English missionaries
  2. Dutch missionaries
  3. French missionaries
  4. Portuguese missionaries
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Correct answer: D. Portuguese missionaries

Portuguese missionaries brought the press to Goa in the mid-sixteenth century, and Jesuits printed Konkani tracts.

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