The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 in British India was modelled on:

1. syllabus 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: syllabus History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 5 "Print Culture and the Modern World", §Press Act ¶1_