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Option 3 : I is True and II is False
- The Vernacular Press Act and The Arms Act are enacted into laws by Viceroy Lord Lytton (1874-1880).
- The Vernacular Press Act (1878) was aimed to cripple regional language newspaper that prints against the government by seizing their printing press.
- The Arms Act of 1878 was passed to restrict Indian access to firearms by asking them to procure licenses whereas the British and Anglo-Indians are exempted from it.
- These two Acts created a huge Uproar in India and hence during Viceroy Lord Rippon's (1880-1884) administration, The Vernacular Press Act was repealed in 1882 but the Arms Act stayed on.
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