Pre-Study: What to Study
6 Subtopics · 28 ConceptsFirst Newspapers in India and the Case for Curbs
Importance 4/5 What to StudyCensorship of Press Act, 1799
Importance 3/5 What to StudyLicensing Regulations, 1823
Importance 3/5 What to StudyPress Act of 1835 (Metcalfe Act)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyLicensing Act, 1857
Importance 2/5 What to StudyRegistration Act, 1867
Importance 2/5 What to Study
Press Freedom on the Early Nationalist Agenda (Rammohan Roy, 1824)
Importance 2/5 What to StudyThe Press as a Tool of Early Nationalists
Importance 3/5 What to StudyMajor Nationalist Newspapers and Their Editors
Importance 4/5 What to StudyRegional Newspapers of Punjab, Bombay and Bengal
Importance 2/5 What to StudyCharacter and Reach of the Nationalist Press
Importance 3/5 What to StudySection 124A and Journalists' Ways Around It
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Background to the Vernacular Press Act
Importance 3/5 What to StudyProvisions of the Vernacular Press Act
Importance 4/5 What to StudyNickname and Worst Features of the Vernacular Press Act
Importance 3/5 What to StudyNewspapers Targeted Under the VPA (and Amrita Bazar Patrika)
Importance 4/5 What to StudyLater Changes and Repeal of the VPA
Importance 4/5 What to Study
Surendranath Banerjea's Imprisonment, 1883
Importance 3/5 What to StudyTilak's Mass Campaigns Before 1897
Importance 2/5 What to StudyPoona Plague and the Rand Murder, 1897
Importance 2/5 What to StudyTilak's 1897 Trial and the Public Response
Importance 3/5 What to StudyAmendment of Section 124A and New Section 153A, 1898
Importance 3/5 What to StudyNewspaper (Incitement to Offences) Act, 1908
Importance 3/5 What to StudyTilak's 1908 Sedition Trial and the Workers' Response
Importance 4/5 What to StudyIndian Press Act, 1910
Importance 3/5 What to Study
Defence of India Rules and the Sapru Press Committee
Importance 3/5 What to StudyIndian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931
Importance 2/5 What to Study
Press Controls During the Second World War
Importance 2/5 What to Study