The colonial government enacted restrictions aimed at Indian-language newspapers, provoking opposition from editors and political activists.
Lord Lytton was Viceroy when the Vernacular Press Act was enacted in 1878. This is a period portrait of Lytton, not an image of the Act itself or of a newspaper office. · Credit: Rijksmuseum; photographer possibly Bourne & Shepherd; printmaker anonymous · License: CC0 1.0
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