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Social Science · 2023 · 3 marks
CBSE 2023 · Region 6 · Set 2 · Q25
How did print come in India? Explain with example. 1 × 3=3
How did print come in India? Explain with example. $\displaystyle 1 \times 3=3$
Marking-scheme solution
(i) The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid-sixteenth century.
(ii) Jesuit Priests learnt Konkani and printed several tracts.
(iii) By $\displaystyle 1674$ about many books had been printed in Konkani and in Kanara languages.
(iv) Catholic priests printed the firstTamil book in $\displaystyle 1579$ at Cochin.
(v) In $\displaystyle 1713$ the first Malayalam book was printed.
(vi) By $\displaystyle 1710$ Dutch Protestant missionaries had printed $\displaystyle 32$ Tamil texts many of them translation of older work.
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