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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2023, set 32/2/1 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2023: question 25(b)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2023, paper 32/2/1, section C, question 25(b), for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q25(b) · 3 marks · Short answerPrint Culture and the Modern World

How did access to books create a new culture of reading? Explain.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2023 board paper, set 32/2/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Compare reading before and after printing.

Hint 2

What happened to the cost and number of books?

Step-by-step solution

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  1. Earlier, reading was restricted to the elites, and common people lived in an oral culture. They heard sacred texts read out, ballads recited and folk tales narrated.

    1 mark

  2. The printing press reduced the cost of books and made multiple copies easy to produce. Books flooded the market and reached an ever-growing readership, creating a new reading public.

    1 mark

  3. Popular ballads and folk tales were printed with illustrations, so reading spread among wider sections of people.

    1 mark

Answer: Cheap, plentiful printed books created a new reading public and moved people from oral to reading culture.

Where the marks are

  • Earlier reading was confined to the elite and common people had an oral culture (1 mark)
  • Printing lowered costs and increased the supply of books (1 mark)
  • Wider readership and printed popular tales (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Print Culture and the Modern World, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2023 board paper, set 32/2/1: every question, by section.

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