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UGC NET November 2017 History
What is the name of the Act under which the printer and publisher of any paper in a native language could be called upon to enter into a bond not to publish anything to excite feelings of disaffection against the government?
APress Act of 1910
BPress Emergency Power Act, 1937
CPress Censor Act of 1868
DVernacular Press Act, 1878 ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Vernacular Press Act, 1878 — The Act was the Vernacular Press Act of 1878, so the answer is the Vernacular Press Act, 1878.
Explanation
★The Act was the Vernacular Press Act of 1878, so the answer is the Vernacular Press Act, 1878.
★Under it the printer and publisher of a native language paper could be made to give a bond.
★The bond was not to publish anything exciting disaffection against the government.
★The Act was meant to control the vernacular press.
★It was passed in the viceroyalty of Lytton.
★So the Act in question is the Vernacular Press Act of 1878.
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