Give reasons for the following:
Gandhi said the fight for Swaraj is a fight for liberty of speech, liberty of the press, and freedom of association.
Gandhi said in 1922: ‘Liberty of speech ... liberty of the press ... freedom of association. The Government of India was then seeking to crush the three powerful vehicles of expressing and cultivating public opinion. The fight for Swaraj meant a fight for this threatened freedom before all else ...’
Give reasons for the following:
Woodblock print only came to Europe after 1295.
Give reasons for the following:
Martin Luther was in favour of print and spoke out in praise of it.
The Roman Catholic Church began keeping an index of prohibited books from the mid-sixteenth century.
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The Gutenberg Press.
