Press and Socio Religious Movement | Complete Modern History Revision Series |UPPCS 2026#uppcs

Welcome to the Modern History Revision Series for UPPCS Prelims 2026! In this comprehensive lecture, we cover the Development of the Indian Press and Socio-Religious Reform Movements through high-yield conceptual flowcharts, chronological act breakdowns, and exam-oriented PYQ facts designed specifically for UPPCS aspirants. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 VIDEO TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [00:00:01] Introduction & Series Overview [00:00:33] Why Did the British Need Press Laws in India? [00:01:12] Advent of Printing Press & Bengal Gazette (1780) [00:02:13] Indian Press, Rise of Nationalism & British Reaction [00:04:03] The 3 Phases of British Press Control [00:04:15] Phase 1: Censorship Act (1799) & Licensing Regulations (1823) [00:05:00] Charles Metcalfe: Liberator of the Indian Press (1835) [00:05:32] Phase 2: Vernacular Press Act 1878 (Gagging Act) [00:06:05] Repeal of Vernacular Press Act by Lord Ripon (1882) [00:06:21] Phase 3: Newspaper Act 1908 & Indian Press Act 1910 [00:07:23] High-Yield Prelims Facts & Chronology of Governors-General [00:08:46] Newspapers Targeted Under Vernacular Press Act (Somprakash & Others) [00:09:29] Sedition & Journalists Punished (Bal Gangadhar Tilak & Surendranath Banerjee) [00:10:23] High-Frequency PYQ Newspapers, Journals & Their Founders [00:11:36] Nationalist Publications: Mahatma Gandhi & Maulana Abul Kalam Azad [00:12:40] Socio-Religious Reform Movements by Presidency (Bengal, Bombay, Madras) [00:13:53] Western & Other Reform Movements (Prarthana Samaj, Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha, etc.) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 KEY HIGHLIGHTS COVERED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The evolution of press censorship from Lord Wellesley to Lord Lytton & Ripon. • Critical distinction between pre-censorship and licensing regulations. • High-frequency match-the-following lists for newspapers and founders from previous year questions. • Structured presidency-wise overview of key socio-religious reform bodies and leaders. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Don't forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe to BodhiSangam PCS for more focused UPPCS 2026 preparation! #UPPCS2026 #UPPCSPrelims #UPPCS #UPPSC #ModernIndianHistory #SocioReligiousMovements #DevelopmentOfPress #UPPCSHistory #ModernHistoryRevision