Indian National Movement | Development of Press in Modern India

Indian National Movement | Development of Press in Modern India

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1. Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?

Lord Ripon
Lord Lytton
Lord Curzon
Lord Minto

2. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?

Lord Lytton
Lord Ripon
Lord Curzon
Lord Hastings

3. The first newspaper in India was

Bengal Gazette
Hindustan Times
Pioneer
Sambad Kaumadi

4. Who among the following had primarily implemented the Press Censorship?

Wellesley
Hastings
John Adams
Dalhousie

5. Under whose Governor-General ship was the Vernacular Act repealed?

Lord Ripon
Lord Lytton
Lord Curzon
Lord Dufferin

6. Who was the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a journalist?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Dadabhai Naoroji
Motilal Ghosh
Surendra Nath Banerjee

7. Who in America started to issue newspaper 'Free India'?

Ram Nath Puri
G.D. Kumar
Lala Hardayal
Tarak Nath Das

8. Persian Weekly 'Miratul Akhbar' was published by

Lala Lajpat Rai
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Maulana Shibli Nomani

9. The first Hindi Newspaper 'Udatt Martand' (30th May, 1826) was published from

Kolkata
Patna
Allahabad
Lucknow

10. From where the 'Indian Mirror' newspaper was published in 1880?

Bombay
Calcutta
Madras
Pondicherry

11. In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Ghadar published?

Urdu
Hindi
English
Marathi

12. The journal 'Ghadar' of Ghadar Party was a

Monthly Journal
Fortnightly Journal
Weekly Journal
Daily Journal

13. Who founded the 'Amrit Bazar Patrika'?

Girish Chandra Ghosh
Harish Chandra Mukherjee
S.N. Banerjee
Sisir Kumar Ghose

14. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India's freedom struggle?

Gadar
Kesari
Free Hindustan
Swadesh Mitra

15. Which one of the popular magazines of the revolutionary period criticized the Congress for various reasons?

Bangawasi
Kaal
Kesari
All of these

16. Who among the following started the newspaper's 'Som Prakash'?

Dayanand Saraswati
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Surendranath Banerjee

17. Which of the following papers was essentially the mouthpiece of the policies of liberals?

New India
Leader
Young India
Free Press Journal

18. Which one of the following was not the language in which 'Indian Opinion' paper was published?

English
Gujarati
Tamil
Urdu

19. The first editor of the journal 'Indian Opinion' was

M.K. Gandhi
Albert West
Mahadev Desai
Mansukhal Nazar

20. The Young India' was started as a weekly by

The Home Rule Party
The Extremist Party
Ghadar Party
Swaraj Party

21. Which journal was not associated with revolutionary activities?

Sandhya
Yugantar
Ghadar
Young India

22. The first Newspaper published by the Indians in the English language was

Hindu Patriot
The Hindu
Young India
Native Opinion

23. The editor of the 'Hindu Patriot' who strongly supported the Indigo Movement was

Hem Chandrakar
Harish Chandra Mukherjee
Dinbandhu Mitra
Digambar Biswas

24. Who affiliated himself with the English Journal 'Vande Matram'?

Arbind Ghosh
M.G. Ranade
S.C. Bose
Lokmanya Tilak

25. Which of the following newspapers used to be published from Patna?

Indian Nation
Punjab Kesari
Prabhakar
Dawn

26. The 'Swadesh Vahini' was edited by

C.V. Raman Pillai
C.N. Mudaliar
K. Ram Krishna Pillai
C.R. Reddy

27. The English Newspaper Independent' was associated to

Mahatma Gandhi
C.R. Das
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Motilal Nehru

28. Through which newspaper published: from Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bizaliya movement the subject of discussion in India?

Kesai
Pratap
Maratha
Majusha

29. 'Harijan' was started by

Tilak
Gokhale
Gandhiji
Naoroji

30. The first issue of a weekly paper 'Harijan' started by Gandhiji was published on February 11, 1933 from which of the following cities?

Bombay (now Mumbai)
Ahmedabad
Poona (now Pune)
Nasik

31. The Marathi fortnightly 'Bahiskrit Bharat' was started by

Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B.R. Ambedkar
V.D. Savarkar
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

32. Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?

Al-Hilal
Comrade
The Indian Sociologist
Zamindar

33. Which Urdu newspaper was started by Lajpat Rai from Lahore in 1920?

Vande Mataram
People
Tribune
Vir Arjun

34. Who among the following had launched the paper 'Qaumi Awaz'?

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Shaukat Ali
Khaliquzzaman

35. To whom Commonweal is related?

B.G. Tilak
Annie Besant
G.K. Gokhale
None of the above

36. Who was the editor of the revolutionary paper 'Vande Mataram'?

Shyamji Krishna Verma
Bipin Chandra Pal
V.D. Savarkar
G.D. Savarkar