Revision Notes for Class 10 Social Science History Chapter 7 Print Culture and the Modern World

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History: India and the Contemporary World – II
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Economics : Understanding Economic Development – II

Here we have given Revision Notes for Class 10 Social Science History Chapter 7 Print Culture and the Modern World

Let’s have a look at important terms and events covered in chapter 7 Print Culture and the Modern World.

Important Terms

Calligraphy: The art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush.
Bureaucracy: Relating to a system of government in which most of the important decisions are taken by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
Illustration: To furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawing, pictures or other artwork intended for explanation.
Vellum: Fine parchment made originally from the skin of a calf.
Scribes: A person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
Platen: It is a small board, which is pressed onto the back of the paper to get the impression from the type. It is used in letterpress printing.
Ballad: A poem or song narrating a stor y in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.
Taverns: Places where people gathered to drink alcohol, to be served food, and to meet friends and exchange news.
Protestant Reformation: was a major 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
Inquisition: a period of prolonged and intensive questioning.
Heretical: holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted.
Prohibited: that has been forbidden; banned.
Denominations: Sub-groups within a religion
Almanac: An annual publication giving astronomical data information about the movements of the sun and moon, timing of full tides, etc.
Chapbooks: a small paper-covered booklet, typically containing poems or fiction.
Despotism: the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.
Ulama: a body of Muslim scholars who are recognised as having specialised knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology.
Fatwa: ruling on a point of Islamic law given by a recognised authority.
Censorship: The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or threat to security.

Important Dates:

AD 594 – Earliest print technology was developed in China, Japan and Korea.
AD 768-770 – Buddhist missionaries from China introduced hand-printing technology to Japan.
11th century – Chinese paper reached Europe through the silk route.
15th century – Woodblocks were being widely used in Europe for printing textiles, playing cards and religious pictures with simple, brief texts.
1430s – Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press.
1450-1550 – Printing presses were set up in most countries of Europe.
1517 – Martin Luther, a religious reformer wrote ‘Ninety-Five Theses’ criticizing many of the practices and rituals of Roman Catholic Church.
1558 – The Roman Church troubled by effects of popular readings and questionings of faith, imposed several controls over publishers and
booksellers and began to maintain an Index of prohibited books.
Mid-16th century – The first printing press came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries.
1674 – About 50 books had been printed in Konkani and in Kanara languages.
1780s – Literature mocked the royalty and criticized their morality. This resulted in the growth of hostile sentiments against the monarchy.
1780s – James Augustus Hickey began the Bengal Gazette, a weekly magazine.
1810 – The first printed edition of the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, a 16th century text, appeared.
1820s – The Calcutta Supreme Court passed certain regulations to control press freedom and the company began encouraging publication of
newspapers that would celebrate the British rule.
1821 – Raja Ram Mohan Roy published the Sambad Kaumudi and the Hindu orthodoxy commissioned the Samachar Chandrika to oppose his opinions.
1822 – Two Persian newspapers were published, Jam-i-Jahan Nama and Shamsul Akhbar. A Gujarati newspaper, the Bombay Samachar, was
also published.
1835 – Faced with urgent petitions by editors of the English and vernacular newspapers, Governor-General Bentinck agreed to revise press laws. Thomas Macaulay formulated new rules that restored their earlier freedoms.
1860s – Few Bengali women such as Kailashbashini Debi wrote books highlighting the experiences of women.
1871 – Jyotiba Phule, the Maratha pioneer of ‘low caste’ protest movements, wrote about the injustices of the caste system in his Gulmagiri.
1876 – Rashsundari Debi’s autobiography, Amar Jiban, was published. It was the first full-length autobiography published in the Bengali language.
1878 – The Vernacular Press Act was passed, modelled on the Irish Press Laws. It provided the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press.

1880s – Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai wrote with passionate anger about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women, especially
widows.
1907 – When the Punjab revolutionaries were deported, Bal Gangadhar Tilak wrote with great sympathy about them in his Kesari.
1920s – Popular works were sold in cheap series, called the Shilling Series in England.
1930s – Bangalore cotton millworkers set up libraries for educating themselves.

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