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Printing Culture and Modern World
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What is Print Culture?
Print culture embodies all forms of printed text and other printed forms of visual communication. One prominent scholar in the field is Elizabeth Eisenstein, who contrasted print culture, which appeared in Europe in the centuries after the advent of the Western printing-press (and much earlier in China where woodblock printing was used from at least 800 AD), to scribal culture. Walter Ong, by contrast, has contrasted written culture, including scribal, to oral culture.
Ong is generally considered one of the first scholars to define print culture in contrast to oral culture. These views are related as the printing press brought a vast rise in literacy, so that one of its effects was simply the great expansion of written culture at the expense of oral culture. The development of printing, like the development of writing itself, had profound effects on human societies and knowledge. "Print culture" refers to the cultural products of the printing transformation.
Print comes to India[/b
[b]In India
In Buddhism, great merit is thought to accrue from copying and preserving texts , the fourth-century master, listing the copying of scripture as the first of ten essential religious practices. The importance of perpetuating texts is set out with special force in the larger Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra which not only urges the devout to hear, learn, remember and study the text but to obtain a good copy and to preserve it
Women and Print
Lives and feelings of women began to be written in particularly vivid and intense
ways. Women’s reading, therefore, increased enormously in middleclass homes.
Liberal husbands and fathers began educating their womenfolk at home, and sent
them to schools when women’s schools were set up in the cities and towns after the
midnineteenth century. Many journals began carrying writings by women, and
explained why women should be educated. They also carried a syllabus and attached
uitable reading matter which could be used for homebased schooling.