Who brought the print revolution to British India and how?
Answer:
- James Augustus Hickey began to edit the ‘Bengal Gazette’, a weekly nfagazine.
- It was a private English magazine, not having British influence on it, which introduced English printing in India.
- Hickey published a lot of advertisements, on import and sale of slaves. He also published gossips about the company’s senior officials in India. Enraged by this, Governor General Warren Hastings persecuted Hickey.