Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?

Q. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
Answer: Lord Lytton
Notes: In 1878, Lord Lytton introduced the Vernacular Press Act to ban the vernacular press in India. The first victim was nationalist Newspaper ‘Soma Prakash’.

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