CBSE 2024 · Region 4 · Set 1 · Q34

Read the given source and answer the questions that follow : After the Revolt of $\displaystyle 1857$, the attitude to freedom of the press changed. Enraged Englishmen demanded a clamp down on the 'native' press. As vernacular newspapers became assertively nationalist, the colonial government began debating measures of stringent control. In $\displaystyle 1878$, 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. From now on the government kept regular track of the vernacular newspapers published in different provinces. When a report was judged as seditious, the newspaper was warned, and if the warning was ignored, the press was liable to be seized and the printing machinery confiscated. ($\displaystyle 34.1$) On which rule was the 'Vernacular Press Act' based ? ($\displaystyle 34.2$) Why did the attitude of the British change towards the freedom of press after the Revolt of $\displaystyle 1857$ ? Explain. ($\displaystyle 34.3$) Explain any two impacts of passing the 'Vernacular Press Act.' $\displaystyle 2 \times 1=2$