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Analyse the changes… (Class 10 Social Science 2025, Q31a)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 32/6/1 · 5 marks · Long answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2025: question 31(a)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 32/6/1, section D, question 31(a), for 5 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q31(a) · 5 marks · Long answerPrint Culture and the Modern World

Analyse the changes in Indian printing by the end of the 19th century.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 32/6/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Think about what more presses allowed for pictures.

Hint 2

Recall which kinds of prints ordinary people could afford.

Step-by-step solution

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  1. More printing presses were set up, so visual images could be easily reproduced in multiple copies.

    1 mark

  2. Painters like Raja Ravi Varma produced images for mass circulation.

    1 mark

  3. Cheap prints and calendars were available in the bazaar, and even poor people could buy them to decorate their homes or workplaces.

    1 mark

  4. These prints shaped popular ideas about modernity and tradition, religion and politics, society and culture.

    1 mark

  5. By the 1870s journals and newspapers carried caricatures and cartoons on political and social issues. Some ridiculed educated Indians who were fascinated with Western taste and clothes, while others expressed fear of social change.

    1 mark

Answer: Presses multiplied images; Ravi Varma's prints, cheap calendars and cartoons reached ordinary people and shaped opinions on society and politics.

Where the marks are

  • Multiple reproduction of images through more presses (1 mark)
  • Ravi Varma's mass-circulated images (1 mark)
  • Cheap prints and calendars bought by the poor (1 mark)
  • Prints shaped ideas on religion, politics and society (1 mark)
  • Caricatures and cartoons in journals by the 1870s (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 paper2025 board paper, set 32/6/1: every question, by section.

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