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    The document provides a timeline of key events in the development and spread of print culture from ancient China to the modern world. It traces the origins of printing technology from hand-rubbing papers in China in the 6th century AD to the development of the printing press in Europe in the 15th century. It then outlines how printing diversified and spread globally over subsequent centuries, driving changes like compulsory primary education and the emergence of print for wider audiences including women and workers.

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    The document provides a timeline of key events in the development and spread of print culture from ancient China to the modern world. It traces the origins of printing technology from hand-rubbing papers in China in the 6th century AD to the development of the printing press in Europe in the 15th century. It then outlines how printing diversified and spread globally over subsequent centuries, driving changes like compulsory primary education and the emergence of print for wider audiences including women and workers.

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    The document provides a timeline of key events in the development and spread of print culture from ancient China to the modern world. It traces the origins of printing technology from hand-rubbing papers in China in the 6th century AD to the development of the printing press in Europe in the 15th century. It then outlines how printing diversified and spread globally over subsequent centuries, driving changes like compulsory primary education and the emergence of print for wider audiences including women and workers.

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    PRINT CULTURE AND THE MODERN WORLD

    TIMELINE

    Dates Events

    From AD
    Books in China were printed by rubbing papers.
    594

    17th
    The uses of print diversified
    Century

    Buddhist missionaries from China first introduced hand-printing


    AD 768-770
    technology into Japan

    AD 868 Oldest Japanese book ‘Diamond Sutra’ got printed

    1295 Marco Polo, a great explorer returned to Italy from China

    1430s Johann Gutenberg developed the first known printing press

    1448 Gutenberg perfected the system by Olive press

    The printing press was established in most countries of Europe


    1450-1550
    in a hundred years

    1517 Religious reformer Martin Luther wrote Ninety Five Theses

    From 1558 Began to maintain an Index of Prohibited books

    19th
    Brought new readers among women, children & workers
    century
    Dates Events

    Late 19th
    Primary education became compulsory
    century

    A children’s press, devoted to literature for children alone, was


    1857
    established in France.

    Late 18th
    Press came to be made out of metal
    century

    Mid-19th Richard M.Hoe of New York had perfected the power-driven


    century cylindrical press

    Late 19th
    Offset press was developed
    Century

    20th
    Electrically operated press accelerated printing operations
    Century

    Popular works were sold in cheap series, called the Shilling


    1920s
    Series in England

    Mid 16th
    Printing press first came to Goa, India
    Century

    About 50 books had been printed in Konkani & in Kanara


    By 1674
    languages

    1579 Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book at Cochin

    1713 First Malayalam book was printed


    Dates Events

    1710 Dutch Protestant missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts

    1780 James Augustus Hickey started to edit the ‘Bengal Gazette’

    1821 Rammohun Roy published the Sambad Kaumudi

    Two Persian newspapers, Jam-i-Jahan Nama and Shamsul


    1822
    Akhbar were published

    1867 Deoband Seminary, established

    The first printed edition of the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, a


    1810
    16th-century text, emerged from Calcutta

    Naval Kishore Press at Lucknow and the Shri Venkateshwar


    From 1880s
    Press in Bombay published numerous religious text

    1876 Rashsundari Debi wrote an autobiography ‘Amar Jiban’

    Kailashbashini Debi wrote books highlighting the experience of


    1860s
    women

    1870s Hindi printing began seriously

    Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai wrote with passionate


    1880s
    anger about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women

    Early 20th
    Ram Chaddha published ‘Istri Dharm Vichar’
    Century
    Dates Events

    1871 Jyotiba Phule wrote ‘Gulamgiri’

    Kashibaba, a Kanpur mill-worker, wrote and published Chhote


    1938
    Aur Bade Ka Sawal

    1955 Sachi Kavitayan

    1857 Attitude to freedom of the press changed after the revolt

    Vernacular Press Act was passed, which was modelled on the


    1878
    Irish Press Laws

    1907 Punjab revolutionaries were deported

    1907 Balgangadhar Tilak wrote ‘Kesari’

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