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"By the seventeenth… (Class 10 Social Science 2025, Q30b)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 32/3/1 · 5 marks · Long answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2025: question 30(b)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 32/3/1, section D, question 30(b), for 5 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q30(b) · 5 marks · Long answerPrint Culture and the Modern World

"By the seventeenth century, the flourishing of urban culture in China also led to diversity in the use of printing." Explain the statement with examples.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 32/3/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Who besides officials used print?

Hint 2

What did new readers read for pleasure?

Step-by-step solution

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  1. By the seventeenth century, with urban culture blooming in China, the uses of print diversified.

    1 mark

  2. Print was no longer used only by scholar-officials; merchants used it daily to collect trade information.

    1 mark

  3. Reading became a leisure activity, and the new readers preferred fiction, poetry, autobiographies, anthologies and romantic plays.

    1 mark

  4. Rich women began to read, and many published their poetry and plays.

    1 mark

  5. Wives of scholar-officials published their works and courtesans wrote about their lives; the new reading culture was accompanied by new technology.

    1 mark

Answer: Urban growth in China broadened print use to merchants, leisure readers and women writers.

Where the marks are

  • Print uses diversified (1 mark)
  • Merchants' use of print (1 mark)
  • Leisure reading and new genres (1 mark)
  • Women as readers and writers (1 mark)
  • Scholars' wives, courtesans and new technology (1 mark)

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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 paper2025 board paper, set 32/3/1: every question, by section.

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