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(a) Why did British government curb the freedom of the Indian press after the revolt of 1857?

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(b) How were the concerns of Oriyan Society depicted in the Oriyan novels of 19th century? Explain.

Answer:

(a) The British government curbed the freedom of the Indian press after the revolt of 1857 because the attitude to freedom of the press changed. Enraged SOCIAL SCIENCE men demanded a clamp down on the ?native? press.

As vernacular newspapers became assertively nationalist, the colonial government began debating measures for stringent control.

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(b) In 1877, Ramshankar Ray, a dramatist, began serializing the first Oriya novel ?Sandamini?. But he could not complete it within 30 years, however, Orissa produced a great novelist. Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843-1918). The title of his novel ?Chaa Mana Atha Guntha? (1902) portrays six acres and thirty two decimals of land. It announces a new kinds of novel that would deal with the question of land and its possession. This novel illustrated the rural issues that were an important part of urban concerns.