📚 CBSE Grade-10 Study Guide
HomeSocial Science (087) (AI practice)

Social Science (087) — AI-generated practice question

AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.

Q1. [1] straightforward exam-ready
The printing press first arrived in India through which group of people? Options: (A) British East India Company traders (B) Dutch Protestant missionaries (C) Portuguese missionaries in Goa (D) French Jesuit priests in Bengal
  1. A British East India Company traders
  2. B Dutch Protestant missionaries
  3. C Portuguese missionaries in Goa
  4. D French Jesuit priests in Bengal
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-26 14:59 · grounding rag
Model Answer

(C) Portuguese missionaries in Goa

The printing press first came to India with Portuguese missionaries in Goa in the mid-sixteenth century.

Explanation

The passage from section 6.2 clearly states: "The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid-sixteenth century." Dutch Protestant missionaries (B) came later; the English East India Company (A) imported presses only from the late 17th century. Option (D) is a fabricated distractor — there is no mention of French Jesuit priests in Bengal.

Previous-year CBSE Grade 10 board exam questions, organised by subject and chapter, each with a model answer — free to read and print.