Transcription of Print Culture and the Modern World - NCERT
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153 Print CultureIt is difficult for us to imagine a World without printed matter. Wefind evidence of Print everywhere around us in books, journals,newspapers, prints of famous paintings, and also in everyday thingslike theatre programmes, official circulars, calendars, diaries,advertisements, cinema posters at street corners. We read printedliterature, see printed images, follow the news through newspapers,and track public debates that appear in Print . We take for grantedthis World of Print and often forget that there was a time beforeprint. We may not realise that Print itself has a history which has, infact, shaped our contemporary World . What is this history? Whendid printed literature begin to circulate? How has it helped createthe Modern World ?
India and the Contemporary World 154 1 The First Printed Books Fig. 2 – A page from the Diamond Sutra. The earliest kind of print technology was developed in China, Japan and Korea. This was a system of hand printing. From AD 594 onwards, books in China were printed by rubbing paper – also invented there – against the inked surface of ...
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