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The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 in British India was modelled on:
AThe Magna Carta
BThe Stamp Act of 1765
CThe Berlin Decree
DThe Irish Press Laws
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. The Irish Press Laws
1. NCERT discusses British censorship in colonial India.
2. The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 — modelled on the Irish Press Laws — gave the colonial government extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press.
3. If reports were deemed seditious, the press could be confiscated.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 5 "Print Culture and the Modern World", §Press Act ¶1_
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