Development of Indian Press

Question 1

started The Bengal Gazetteor Calcutta General Advertiser

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James Augustus Hickey in 1780

Question 2

Censorship of Press Act, 1799

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Lord Wellesley enacted this, anticipating French invasion of India.

pre-censorship

relaxed under Lord Hasting

Question 3

Licensing Regulations, 1823

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The acting governor-general, John Adams, who had reactionary views, enacted these

starting or using a press without licence was a penal offence.

Question 4

Rammohan Roy’s Mirat-ul-Akbar had to stop publication due to

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Licensing Regulations, 1823

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“liberator of the Indian press”.

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Metcalfe (governor-general—1835-36)

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required a printer/publisher to give a precise account of premises ofa publication and cease functioning,

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Press Act of 1835 or Metcalfe Act

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Press Act of 1835 or Metcalfe Act

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registration procedure laid down

Question 8

reserved the right to stop publication and

circulation of any book, newspaper or printed matter

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Licensing Act, 1857

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This replaced Metcalfe’s Act of 1835 and was of a regulatory, not restrictive

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Registration Act, 1867

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Registration Act, 1867

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every book/ newspaper was required to print the name of the printer and the publisher and the place of the publication; and
(ii) a copy was to be submitted to the local government within one month of the publication of a book.

Question 11

In 1883, became the first

Indian journalist to be imprisoned

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Surendranath Banerjea

Question 12

The Hindu and Swadesamitran under

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G. Subramaniya Aiyar

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Bengalee under

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Surendranath Banerjea

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Voice of India under

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Dadabhai Naoroji

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Amrita Bazar Patrika under

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Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh

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Indian Mirror under

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N.N. Sen,

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Kesari (in Marathi) and Maharatta (in English) under

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Balgangadhar Tilak

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Sudharak under

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale

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Hindustan and Advocate under

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G.P. Verma

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Tribune and Akbhar-i-am in

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Punjab

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Gujarati, Indu Prakash, Dhyan Prakash and Kal in

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Bombay

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Som Prakash, Banganivasi and Sadharani in

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Bengal

Question 23

Vernacular Press Act, 1878

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The district magistrate was empowered to call upon
the printer and publisher of any vernacular newspaper to enter into a bond with the government

no appeal could’be made in a court of law

Question 24

The Act came to be nicknamed “the gagging Act”.

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Vernacular Press Act, 1878

Question 25

Under VPA, proceedings were instituted against

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Som Prakash, Bharat Mihir, Dacca Prakash and Samachar

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turned overnight into an English newspaper to escape the VPA

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Amrita Bazar Patrika

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murder of the chairman of the Plague Committee

in Poona by

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the Chapekar brothers

Question 28

Tilak was arrested after the murder of Rand on the

basis of the publication of a poem

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Shivaji’s Utterances

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Newspaper (Incitement to Offences) Act, 1908

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Act empowered the magistrates to confiscate press property which publishedobjectionable material likely to cause incitement to murder/ acts of violence

Question 30

This Act revived the worst features of the VPA

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Indian Press Act, 1910

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Indian Press Act, 1910

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submit two copies of each issue to local government free of charge.

local government was empowered to demand a security at registration

Question 32

In 1921, on the recommendations of a Press
Committee chaired by the Press Acts of
1908 and 1910 were repealed

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Tej Bahadur Sapru,

Question 33

This Act gave sweeping powers to provincial governments to suppress propaganda for Civil Disobedience Movement

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Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931

Question 34

Defence of India Rules were imposed for

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repression ofpolitical agitation and free public criticism during the First World War.