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Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579 at:Read the answer and worked solution →From 1780, James Augustus Hickey edited which weekly, the start of English printing in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Rammohun Roy published which paper from 1821?Read the answer and worked solution →The Gujarati newspaper Bombay Samachar first appeared in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Deoband Seminary was founded in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first printed edition of Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas came out from Calcutta in:Read the answer and worked solution →Rashsundari Debi's Amar Jiban of 1876 was the first full-length autobiography in:Read the answer and worked solution →Jyotiba Phule's Gulamgiri, on the injustices of caste, was published in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was modelled on the:Read the answer and worked solution →Tilak was jailed in 1908 for writing in his Kesari about revolutionaries deported from:Read the answer and worked solution →In August 1942, during the Quit India movement, about how many newspapers were suppressed?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Indian newspapersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the European print namesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the print datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the print wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Europe or IndiaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the Indian print worldRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Print culture bingoRead the answer and worked solution →In 1600, about what share of India's landmass was under cultivation?Read the answer and worked solution →Each mile of railway track required how many wooden sleepers?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1890, about how many km of railway track had been laid in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which German expert became the first Inspector General of Forests in India?Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian Forest Service was set up by Brandis in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up in 1906 at:Read the answer and worked solution →The Forest Act of 1865 was amended in 1878 and again in:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the 1878 Act, the best forests from which villagers could take nothing were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Shifting cultivation is called chena in which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Plots in shifting cultivation were left fallow for the forest to regrow for about:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1875 and 1925, how many tigers were killed for reward in India?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579 at:

  1. Madurai
  2. Cochin
  3. Goa town
  4. Madras
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Correct answer: B. Cochin

1. Konkani books came first at Goa. 2. The Tamil book came out at Cochin. 3. The first Malayalam book followed in 1713. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._

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From 1780, James Augustus Hickey edited which weekly, the start of English printing in India?

  1. Sambad Kaumudi
  2. Samachar Chandrika
  3. Bengal Gazette
  4. Bombay Samachar
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Correct answer: C. Bengal Gazette

1. It called itself open to all, influenced by none. 2. Hickey's paper was the Bengal Gazette. 3. Warren Hastings persecuted him. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._

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Rammohun Roy published which paper from 1821?

  1. Samachar Chandrika
  2. Bombay Samachar
  3. Bengal Gazette
  4. Sambad Kaumudi
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Correct answer: D. Sambad Kaumudi

1. Reform debates ran in print. 2. Roy's paper was the Sambad Kaumudi. 3. Orthodoxy replied with the Samachar Chandrika. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._

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