Print did not only stimulate the publications of conflicting opinions among different communities
Print did not only stimulate the publications of conflicting opinions among different communities but also connected them in 19th century India. Explain.
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(i) From early 19th century, there were heated debates around religious issues. Debates were carried out in public and in print.
(ii) Printed tracts and newspapers spread new ideas and shape the nature of the debate. A wider public could participate in these public discussions. New ideas emerged through a clash of opinions.
(iii) Intense controversies between social and religious reformers and Hindu orthodoxy over issues like widow immolation, monotheism, idolatry etc. Arose.
(iv) In bengal, as the debate developed, tracts and newspaper proliferated, circulating a variety of arguments.
(v) Rammohan Roy published 'Sambad Kaumudi' in 1821 and Hindu orthodoxy commissioned Samachar Chandrika. Newspapers conveyed news from one place to another.