what is vernacular press act

The Vernacular Press Act , law was enacted in 1878 in an effort to silence those who were critical of the government. It was proposed by Lord Lyttot, who was then the Viceroy of India.This act was intented to prevent the vernacular presses from expressing critisism of British policies. This Act allowed the government to cofiscate assets of newpapers including their presses if found publishing anything that was objectionable.

The vernacular Press act was passed in 1878. It was passed to silence those Presses and Newspapers or Journals that were critical of the govt. If anything in the Newspaper was found objectionable its newspapers and printing presses were confiscated.

The vernacular press act of 1878 forbade any provocative writings in regional languages against the government. The politically concious Indians took it as an attemp to suppress the growing nationalist criticism of British Rule.

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The Arms act was passed in 1878,dissallowing the Indians from possesing the arms .In the same year the Vernacular Press Act was also enacted , in an effort to silence those who were critical of the government.

The Vernacular Press Act − Passed in the same year as the Arms Act, this Act was aimed at silencing those who were critical of the government. Under this Act, the government could confiscate the assets of newspapers if they published anything that was found “objectionable”.

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In 1878,the Vernacular Press Act was passed on the model of Irish Press Laws.

-It provided the Government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the vernacular press.

-The Government started keeping regular track of the vernacular newspapers published in various provinces.

-When a report was judged as opposing the Government,the newspaper was warned,and if the warning was ignored,the press was liable to be seized.

1. Act empowered a Magistrate to secure an undertaking from the editor, publisher and printer of a vernacular newspaper that nothing would be published against the English Government.

~~In British India, the Vernacular Press Act (Act of 1878) was enacted to curtail the freedom of the Indian press and prevent the expression of criticism toward British policies—notably, the opposition that had grown with the outset of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80).[1] The act was proposed by Lord Lytton, then Viceroy of India, and was unanimously passed by the Viceroy's Council on March 14, 1878. The act excluded English-language publications as it was meant to control seditious writing in 'publications in Oriental languages' everywhere in the country, except for the South.But the British totally discriminated the Indian Press.

The act empowered the government to impose restrictions on the press in the following ways:

1.) Modelled on the Irish press act, this act provided the government with extensive rights to censor reports and editorials in the Vernacular press.

2.) From now on the government kept regular track of Vernacular newspapers.

3.) When a report published in the newspaper was judged as seditious, the newspaper was warned.

4.)No Indian was allowed to carry arms without license

Vernacular Press Act, in British India, law enacted in 1878 to curtail the freedom of the Indian-language (i.e., non-English) press. Proposed by Lord Lytton, then viceroy of India (governed 1876–80), the act was intended to prevent the vernacular press from expressing criticism of British policies—notably, the opposition that had grown with the outset of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80). The act excluded English-language publications. It elicited strong and sustained protests from a wide spectrum of the Indian populace.

The law was repealed in 1881 by Lytton’s successor as viceroy, Lord Ripon (governed 1880–84). However, the resentment it produced among Indians became one of the catalysts giving rise to India’s growing independence movement. Among the act’s most vocal critics was the Indian Association (founded 1876), which is generally considered to be one of the precursors of the Indian National Congress (founded 1885).

The Vernacular Press Act , law was enacted in 1878 in an effort to silence those who were critical of the government. It was proposed by Lord Lyttot, who was then the Viceroy of India.This act was intented to prevent the vernacular presses from expressing critisism of British policies. This Act allowed the government to cofiscate assets of newpapers including their presses if found publishing anything that was objectionable.