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The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1900.

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The above statement is false.
The Vernacular Press Act was passed by the British in India to prevent instances of sedition in vernacular languages. The Act, passed in 1878, was based on the Irish Press Laws. Through the Vernacular Press Act, the government kept its control of the editorial in vernacular language and imposed censorship on them. The government maintained a regular newspaper record in the vernacular languages in different provinces. It provided the power to judge the reports of newspapers as seditious or not. The newspapers were liable to be seized if the warning was ignored and the government confiscated machinery.
The correct statement would be that the Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878.

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