Print Culture and the Modern World
This chapter of the NCERT Class 10 India and the Contemporary World II textbook, Chapter 4, traces how print transformed communication and politics. It begins with early Chinese woodblock printing and Japanese art, follows Gutenberg and the spread of presses in Europe, and examines how books, newspapers and pamphlets encouraged debate, science and reform. It then turns to India, where missionary and Indian presses, vernacular papers and cheap pamphlets spread education, social reform and nationalist ideas despite colonial censorship and controls.
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