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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 →Robert Owen sought to build a cooperative community called New Harmony in:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1914 Russia and its empire were ruled by:Read the answer and worked solution →About what share of the Russian empire's people lived by agriculture around 1900?Read the answer and worked solution →By 1914, women made up what share of Russia's factory labour force?Read the answer and worked solution →The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party was founded in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Socialist Revolutionary Party, which demanded nobles' land for peasants, was formed in:Read the answer and worked solution →Lenin led which group, which wanted a disciplined party controlling its membership?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1905 procession to the Winter Palace, fired on in what became Bloody Sunday, was led by:Read the answer and worked solution →During the 1905 Revolution the Tsar allowed an elected consultative Parliament called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Because of anti-German feeling during the war, St Petersburg was renamed:Read the answer and worked solution →Which monk's influence over Tsarina Alexandra made the autocracy unpopular?Read the answer and worked solution →Tsar Nicholas II abdicated on:Read the answer and worked solution →Lenin's April Theses demanded an end to the war, land to the peasants and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Military Revolutionary Committee that organised the October seizure was headed by:Read the answer and worked solution →Which ship shelled the Winter Palace on 24 October 1917?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Deoband Seminary was founded in:

  1. 1885
  2. 1867
  3. 1857
  4. 1878
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Correct answer: B. 1867

1. The ulama feared for Muslim personal law. 2. Deoband was founded in 1867. 3. It printed thousands of fatwas. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._

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The first printed edition of Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas came out from Calcutta in:

  1. 1857
  2. 1880
  3. 1810
  4. 1780
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Correct answer: C. 1810

1. It is a sixteenth-century text. 2. The printed edition came in 1810. 3. Cheap lithographs followed. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._

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Rashsundari Debi's Amar Jiban of 1876 was the first full-length autobiography in:

  1. Marathi
  2. Gujarati
  3. Assamese
  4. Bengali
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Correct answer: D. Bengali

1. She learnt to read secretly in her kitchen. 2. Amar Jiban was in Bengali. 3. Women's writing grew from the 1860s. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._

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