Question

Which of the following statements are correct?

• A. The British were responsible for introducing India to its first printing press.
• B. Debopam Chatterjee was the founder of the newspaper, Calcutta General Advertiser.
  
• C. The first English-language newspaper in India was printed in the year 1780.
  
• D. Lokhitvadi wrote about issues like child marriage and the caste system, among other things.

Answer 1

Answer: (C), (D)

The correct options are
C The first English-language newspaper in India was printed in the year 1780.

D Lokhitvadi wrote about issues like child marriage and the caste system, among other things.

• The Portuguese brought the printing press to India in 1556.
• James Augustus Hickey published the first English-language newspaper in India, in the year 1780. It was called the Bengal Gazette or the Calcutta General Advertiser.
• The newspaper called Prabhakar published Lokhitvadi's letters that dealt with a plethora of social issues like child marriage, caste system, widow remarriage, dowry system, and polygamy.