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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2024, set 32/4/1 · 4 marks · Case-based

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2024: question 34

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2024, paper 32/4/1, section E, question 34, for 4 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q34 · 4 marks · Case-basedCompetency-basedPrint Culture and the Modern World

Read the given source and answer the questions that follow:

After the Revolt of 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 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.

  1. (34.1)

    On which rule was the ‘Vernacular Press Act’ based ?

    1 mark
  2. (34.2)

    Why did the attitude of the British change towards the freedom of press after the Revolt of 1857 ? Explain.

    1 mark
  3. (34.3)

    Explain any two impacts of passing the ‘Vernacular Press Act.’ (2×1=2)

    2 marks

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2024 board paper, set 32/4/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Read the first lines of the passage: the Act was 'modelled on' something.

Hint 2

Why would rulers fear newspapers that were assertively nationalist?

Hint 3

Look at what the government was allowed to do with reports and with seditious newspapers.

Step-by-step solution

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  1. (34.1) The Vernacular Press Act was based on the Irish Press Laws.

    1 mark

  2. (34.2) After 1857 the vernacular (native-language) newspapers became assertively nationalist, so the British wanted to control and clamp down on them.

    1 mark

  3. (34.3) (i) The Act gave the government extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press.

    1 mark

  4. (ii) The government kept regular track of the vernacular newspapers in the provinces. Seditious reports led to a warning, and later to seizure of the press and confiscation of the printing machinery.

    1 mark

Answer: (34.1) Irish Press Laws; (34.2) the vernacular newspapers had become assertively nationalist; (34.3) censorship rights over reports and editorials, and regular tracking with warnings and seizure of presses.

Where the marks are

  • Irish Press Laws (1 mark)
  • Nationalist vernacular newspapers led to the change in attitude (1 mark)
  • First impact of the Act (1 mark)
  • Second impact of the Act (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 paper2024 board paper, set 32/4/1: every question, by section.

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