Why did some people fear the effect of easily available printed book ? Give one example each from Europe and India ?

Gold and platinum. (i) A thin impervious layer of aluminium oxide forms a protective layer which protects the aluminium metals underneath from further damage. (ii) Corrosion of iron is a serious problem....

Some people in eighteenth-century Europe thought that print culture would bring enlightenment and end despotism. It’s easy and cheap availability meant that literacy would no longer be restricted to the...

Lyophilic sols: Lyophilic sols are those sols in which the particles of dispersed phase have great affinity for the dispersion medium, e.g., sols of gum, gelatine, starch, etc.   Lyophobic sols:...

(i) To attract people, the printers started printing popular ballads and folk tales. (ii) To attract people books had been incorporated with lots of illustrations. (iii) Ballads and folk tales were sung...

(i) Books became cheaper and helped the individuals to read which developed rational thinking, scientific outlook, liberalism and democratic ideas. (ii) The writings of the great philosophers like Thomas Paine, Rousseau...

(i) Periodicals, journals and newspapers in the early 18th century combined information from various fields. (ii) That’s how the ideas of scientists and philosophers became more accessible to the common people. (iii)...

Sources of attraction: (i) Very cheap small books were brought to market in the 19th century. (ii) Public libraries were set up to give an easy access to books. (iii) Kashibaba of Kanpur...

India became a Union of States because it consisted of both British-ruled territories as well as many princely states- Some sub-political units of India have a special status. (i) French...

(d) East and South Asia

Gold and platinum. (i) Corrosion of aluminium is useful. A protective layer of aluminium oxide is formed on the surface of the metal which renders the metal passive and prevents is further...