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In the late 19th century, the Battala area of Calcutta became famous for printing:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A.
1. NCERT discusses Battala publishing.
2. Battala in Calcutta — known for its cheap presses — produced popular Bengali tracts, almanacs, religious books, romances and song books from the 1840s onwards.
3. These reached a wide reading public including women and the urban poor.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 History India and the Contemporary World - II, Ch 5 "Print Culture and the Modern World", §Battala ¶1_
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