Print culture and the modern world

Complete the sentence with one out of the following words:

The Chinese paper reached Europe through

• Sea Route

• Silk Route

• Buddhist missionaries

• Buddhist merchants

Who wrote about the injustices of the caste system in ‘Gulamgiri’?

• Raja Rammohan Roy

• Jyotiba Phule

• Balgangadhar Tilak

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Why was not everyone happy with the establishment of print technology?

• people feared that it wold destroy the country.

• it would create rebellious and irreligious thoughts among people.

• it might destroy the value of literature

• it would destroy the print technology

Choose the incorrect statement from following.

• The printing press first came to Goa with Bitish missionaries in the mid-sixteenth century.

• Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579 at Cochin.

• In 1713 the first Malayalam book was printed by Catholic priests.

The Founder of newspaper Bangal Gazette is James Augustus

• False

• True

In ancient India which of the following material was used for writing manuscripts?

• Vellum

• Palm leaves

• Parchment paper

• paper

Name this book

• Akbarnama

• Diwan of hafiz

• Quran

• Diwan-e-ghalib

Name this book

• rig veda

• Yajur veda

• Sama veda

• Atharva veda

(a)   of korea is among the world s oldest existing books printed with movanle metal type

Name the author of the book (hamlet)

(a)