Question
How new technologies speeded up various forms of communication?

Answer

  • The printing press, telegraph, and later the microphone, movement of people and goods through steamship and railways helped quick movement of new ideas.
  • Within India, social reformers from Punjab and Bengal exchanged ideas with reformers of Madras and Maharashtra.
  • Keshav Chandra Sen of Bengal visited Madras in 1864.
  • Pandita Ramabai travelled to different corners of the country.
  • Some of them went to other countries.
  • Christian missionaries reached remote corners of present day Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya.

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