Development of Press in Modern India

1. The first newspaper in India was –

(a) Bengal Gazette (b) Hindustan Times

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

(a) Wellesley (b) Hastings

✓Lord Wellesley= censorship of Press Act, 1799.

✓Lord Hastings abrogated this act in 1818.

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 Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?

(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Lytton

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

(a) Lord Lytton (b) Lord Ripon

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

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) Dadabhai Nauroji

8. Who in America started to issue newspaper ‘Free India’?

(a) Ram Nath Puri (b) G..D. Kumar

9. Persian Weekly ‘Miratul Akhbar’ was Published by:

(a) Lala Lajpat Rai

(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Maulana Shibli Nomani

*10. The first Hindi Newspaper ‘Udant Martand’ (30th May, 1826) was published from –

(a) Kolkata (b) Patna

✓Published by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla.

*11. From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880?

(a) Bombay (b) Calcutta

12. In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Gadar published?

(a) Urdu (b) Hindi

13. The journal ‘Gadar’ of Gadar Party was a :

(a) Monthly Journal (b) Fortnightly Journal

14. Who founded the ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’?

(a) Girish Chandra Ghosh

(b) Harish Chandra Mukherjee

(d) Shishir Kumar Ghose

15. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom

struggle?

(a) Gadar (b) Kesari

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

(a) Bangawasi (b) Kaal

✓criticized Congress for its liberal policies.

17. Which of the following newspapers advocated revolutionary terrorism during the period of Indian freedom struggle ?’

1. Sandhya 2. Yugantar

3. Kaal

18. With which of the following Newspaper/Magazine, Mahatma Gandhi was not associated?

(a) Indian Opinion (b) Young India

✓‘Yugantar’ = weekly Magazine + by Bhupendra Nath Dutt & Barindra Kumar Ghosh.

19. Who among the following started the newspaper ‘Som Prakash’?

(a) Dayanand Saraswati

(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(d) Surendranath Banerjee

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

(a) New India (b) Leader

21. Which one of the following was not the language in which ‘Indian Opinion’ paper was published?

(a) English (b) Gujarati

22. The first editor of the journal ‘Indian Opinion’ was :

(a) M.K. Gandhi (b) Albert West

23. The ‘Young India’ was started as a weekly by:

(a) The Home Rule Party (b) The Extremist Party

24. Which journal was not associated with revolutionary activities?

(a) Sandhya (b) Yugantar

(e) None of the above/More than one of the above

*25. The first Newspaper published by the Indians in the English language was:

(a) Hindu Patriot (b) The Hindu

26. The editor of the ‘Hindu Patriot’ who strongly supported the Indigo Movement was :

(a) Hem Chandrakar

(b) Harish Chandra Mukherjee

(d) Digambar Biswas

27. Who affiliated himself with the English Journal ‘Vande Matram’?

(a) Arbind Ghosh (b) M. G. Ranade

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

(a) Indian Nation (b) Punjab Kesari

29. The ‘Swadesh Vahini’ was edited by –

(a) C.V. Raman Pillai (b) C.N. Mudaliar

30. The English Newspaper ‘Independent’ was associated to-

(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) C.R. Das

31. The correctly matched newspapers and their respective languages is as follows :

Bharat Mitra - Hindi

Rastra Mata - Marathi

Prajamitra - Gujarati

Nayak - Bengali

*32. The correctly matched newspapers and their respective founder is as follows:

(Newspaper) ----- (Founder)

Dainik Aaj - Shiv Prasad Gupta

The Leader - Madan Mohan Malviya

The National Herald - Jawahar Lal Nehru

The Pioneer - George Allen

33. Through which newspaper published from Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bijoliya movement the subject of discussion in India.

(a) Kesari (b) Pratap

34. ‘Harijan’ was started by –

(a) Tilak (b) Gokhale

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

(a) Bombay (now Mumbai) (b) Ahmedabad

✓Yerwada Central Jail, Pune in Maharashtra.

36. The Marathi fortnightly ‘Bahishkrit Bharat’ was started by:

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) B.R. Ambedkar

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

(a) Al-Hilal (b) Comrade

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

(a) Vande Matram (b) People

40. (Newspapers) --- (Editors)

A. Hindu -- G. Subramaniya Iyer

*B. Sudharak -- Gopal Krishna Gokhale

C. Voice of India ----Dadabhai Nauroji

D. Bengali --- Surendra Nath Banerjee

41. (Newspaper) --- (Editor )

The Hindu ---- G. Subramaniyam Iyer

Kesari --- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Bengalee ---- Surendranath Bannerjee

*Hindustani ---- Ganga Prasad Verma

Sudharak ---- Gopal Krishna Gokhale

42. (Newspaper) --- (Publisher )

Bengalee --- Surendra Nath Banerjee

*Bangbasi --- Jogendra Nath Bose

*Vande Matram --- Arvind Ghosh

**Amrit Bazar Patrika--- Motilal Ghosh

43. (Newspapers) --- (Editors)

*Kal --- Shivrama Mahadev Paranjape

Bengalee --- Surendra Nath Banerjee

Sudharak --- Gopal Krishna Gokhale

**Somaprakash -Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan

44. (Newspapers) --(Person who started it)

Bombay Chronicle---Firoz Shah Mehta

'New India' & Commonweal --Annie Besant

*Leader --- Madan Mohan Malviya.

Searchlight --- Sachindanand Sinha.

45. (Newspapers)-- (Publishers)

Leader --- Madan Mohan Malviya

Bombay Chronicle - Firozshah Mehta

*Independent - Motilal Nehru

*Justice - T.M. Nair

46. Correclty matched

List-I List-II

Abul Kalam Azad --- Al-Hilal

Feroz Shah Mehta --- Bombay Chronicle

Annie Besant --- New India

Mahatma Gandhi --- Young India

47. (Newspaper) ---- (Founder)

(a) Al-Hilal ---Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(b) New India --- Annie Besant

*(c)Tahzeeb-ul-Akhlaq--- Syed Ahmed Khan

(d) Samvad Kaumudi--- Raja Ram Mohan Roy

48. (Founders) --- (Newspapers)

(a) Maulana Azad -- Al-Hilal

(b) Lokmanya Tilak -- Kesari

*(c) Jawaharlal Nehru -- National Herald

(d) George Allen -- The Pioneer

(e) Indian Opinion & Navjeevan--Mahatma

Gandhi.

*49. Who among the following had launched the paper ‘Qaumi Awaz’?

(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) Khaliquzzaman

50. (Newspapers) ---(Founders)

(a) Navjiwan – M.K. Gandhi

*(b) Swarajya – T. Prakasham

*(c) Prabhat – N.C. Kelkar

(d) Qaumi Awaz – Jawaharlal Nehru

51. correctly matched

Commonweal -- Annie Besant

Young India -- Mahatma Gandhi

Kesari -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak

*Mook Nayak -- B.R. Ambedkar

52. correctly matched

*(a) Motilal Nehru --- Independent

(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak --- Kesari

*(d) Dadabhai Nauroji --- Rast Goftar

53.correctly matched

Annie Besant - New India

Mahatma Gandhi - Young India

54. Which of the followings were the two newspapers published by Annie Besant?

1. Commonweal 2. New India

3. New Hindu 4. The Aryans

56. Correctly matched

Bipin Chandra Pal - New India

*Arvind Ghosh -- Vande Mataram

*Brahmobandhab Upadhyay -- Sandhya

Muhammad Ali - Comrade

✓‘Vande Mataram’= founded in 1906

by Bipin Chandra Pal & later edited by Sri Aurobindo.

58. Which of the following was not a ‘nationalist’ newspaper?

(a) The Hindu (b) Bengalee

(e) None of the above/More than one of the above

59. The correctly matched list is as follows :

(Editors) --- (Papers/Magazine)

S.A. Dange --- The Socialist

*Muzaffar Ahmad --- Navyug

Gulam Hussain ---- Inqilab

*M. Singarvelu --- Labour Kisan Gazette

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