MCQ on Development of Press in Modern India

Q. Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?
(A) Lord Ripon
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Minto

Q. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
(A) Lord Lytton
(B) Lord Ripon
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Hastings

Q. The first newspaper in India was______.
(A) Bengal Gazette
(B) Hindustan Times
(C) Pioneer
(D) Sambad Kaumadi

Q. Who among the following had primarily implemented the Press Censorship?
(A) Wellesley
(B) Hastings
(C) John Adams
(D) Dalhousie

Q. Under whose Governor-General ship was the Vernacular Act repealed?
(A) Lord Ripon
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Dufferin

Q. Who was the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a journalist?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Motilal Ghosh
(D) Surendra Nath Banerjee

Q. Who in America started to issue newspaper ‘Free India’?
(A) Ram Nath Puri
(B) G.D. Kumar
(C) Lala Hardayal
(D) Tarak Nath Das

Q. Persian Weekly ‘Miratul Akhbar’ was published by ______.
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(C) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(D) Maulana Shibli Nomani

Q. The first Hindi Newspaper ‘Udatt Martand’ (30th May, 1826) was published from ______.
(A) Kolkata
(B) Patna
(C) Allahabad
(D) Lucknow

Q. From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880?
(A) Bombay
(B) Calcutta
(C) Madras
(D) Pondicherry

Q. In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Ghadar published?
(A) Urdu
(B) Hindi
(C) English
(D) Marathi

Q. The journal ‘Ghadar’ of Ghadar Party was a _______.
(A) Monthly Journal
(B) Fortnightly Journal
(C) Weekly Journal
(D) Daily Journal

Q. Who founded the ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’?
(A) Girish Chandra Ghosh
(B) Harish Chandra Mukherjee
(C) S.N. Banerjee
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose

Q. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle?
(A) Gadar
(B) Kesari
(C) Free Hindustan
(D) Swadesh Mitra

Q. Which one of the popular magazines of the revolutionary period criticized the Congress for various reasons?
(A) Bangawasi
(B) Kaal
(C) Kesari
(D) All of these

Q. Who among the following started the newspaper’s ‘Som Prakash’?
(A) Dayanand Saraswati
(B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(D) Surendranath Banerjee

Q. Which of the following papers was essentially the mouthpiece of the policies of liberals?
(A) New India
(B) Leader
(C) Young India
(D) Free Press Journal

Q. Which one of the following was not the language in which ‘Indian Opinion’ paper was published?
(A) English
(B) Gujarati
(C) Tamil
(D) Urdu

Q. The first editor of the journal ‘Indian Opinion’ was______.
(A) M.K. Gandhi
(B) Albert West
(C) Mahadev Desai
(D) Mansukhal Nazar

Q. The ‘Young India’ was started as a weekly by _______.
(A) The Home Rule Party
(B) The Extremist Party
(C) Ghadar Party
(D) Swaraj Party

Q. Which journal was not associated with revolutionary activities?
(A) Sandhya
(B) Yugantar
(C) Ghadar
(D) Young India

Q. The first Newspaper published by the Indians in the English language was ______.
(A) Hindu Patriot
(B) The Hindu
(C) Young India
(D) Native Opinion

Q. The editor of the ‘Hindu Patriot’ who strongly supported the Indigo Movement was _______.
(A) Hem Chandrakar
(B) Harish Chandra Mukherjee
(C) Dinbandhu Mitra
(D) Digambar Biswas

Q. Who affiliated himself with the English Journal ‘Vande Matram’?
(A) Arbind Ghosh
(B) M.G. Ranade
(C) S.C. Bose
(D) Lokmanya Tilak

Q. Which of the following newspapers used to be published from Patna?
(A) Indian Nation
(B) Punjab Kesari
(C) Prabhakar
(D) Dawn

Q. The ‘Swadesh Vahini’ was edited by ______.
(A) C.V. Raman Pillai
(B) C.N. Mudaliar
(C) K. Ram Krishna Pillai
(D) C.R. Reddy

Q. The English Newspaper ‘Independent’ was associated to_______.
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) C.R. Das
(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(D) Motilal Nehru

Q. Through which newspaper published from Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bizaliya movement the subject of discussion in India?
(A) Kesai
(B) Pratap
(C) Maratha
(D) Majusha

Q. ‘Harijan’ was started by______.
(A) Tilak
(B) Gokhale
(C) Gandhiji
(D) Naoroji

Q. 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
(C) Poona (now Pune)
(D) Nasik

Q. The Marathi fortnightly ‘Bahiskrit Bharat’ was started by______.
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) B.R. Ambedkar
(C) V.D. Savarkar
(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Q. …… was related to Bahiskrit Bharat.
(A) Atmaram Pandurang
(B) Jyotiba Phule
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) B.R. Ambedkar

Q. Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?
(A) Al-Hilal
(B) Comrade
(C) The Indian Sociologist
(D) Zamindar

Q. Which Urdu newspaper was started by Lajpat Rai from Lahore in 1920?
(A) Vande Mataram
(B) People
(C) Tribune
(D) Vir Arjun

Q. Given below are the names of freedom fighters and the newspapers started by them among these which combination is incorrect?
(A) Maulana Azad – Al-Hilal
(B) Lokmanya Tilak – Kesari
(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru – National Herald
(D) Mahatma Gandhi – The Pioneer

Q. Who among the following had launched the paper ‘Qaumi Awaz’?
(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(C) Shaukat Ali
(D) Khaliquzzaman

Q. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(A) Navjiwan – M.K. Gandhi
(B) Swarajya – T. Prakasham
(C) Prabhat – N.C. Kelkar
(D) Qaumi Awaz – Abul Kalam Azad

Q. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi – Mook Nayak
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Young India
(C) Annie Besant – Commonweal
(D) B.R. Ambedkar – Kesari

Q. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
(A) B.R. Ambedkar – Independent
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Kesari
(C) Annie Besant – New India
(D) Dadabhai Naoroji – Rast Goftar

Q. Which of the following is correctly matched?
(A) Annie Besant – Young India
(B) Mahatma Gandhi – New India
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Kesari
(D) Surendranath Banerjee – Maratha

Q. To whom Commonweal is related?
(A) B.G. Tilak
(B) Annie Besant
(C) G.K. Gokhale
(D) None of the above

Q. Who was the editor of the revolutionary paper ‘Vande Mataram’?
(A) Shyamji Krishna Verma
(B) Bipin Chandra Pal
(C) V.D. Savarkar
(D) G.D. Savarkar

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

1. Sandhya
2. Yugantar
3. Kaal

Choose the correct answer from the code given below.
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(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1 and 3
(C) 2 and 3
(D) 1, 2 and 3

Q. Which of the following were the two Newspapers published by Annie Besant?

1. Commonweal
2. New India
3. New Hindu
4. The Aryans

Select the correct answer using the code given below.
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(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1 and 3
(C) 2 and 4
(D) 3 and 4

Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using code given below.
List-I (Newspaper)
(a) Bharat Mitra
(b) Rastra Mitra
(c) Praja Mitra
(d) Nayak
List-II (Language)

1. Bengali
2. Gujarati
3. Hindi
4. Marathi

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Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Newspaper)
(a) Dainik Aaj
(b) The Leader
(c) The National
(d) The Pioneer
List-II (Founder)

1. George Allen
2. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3. Madan Mohan Malviya
4. Shiv Prasad Gupta

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Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Newspapers)
(a) Hindu
(b) Sudharak
(c) Voice of India
(d) Bengali
List-II (Editors)

1. Dadabhai Naoroji
2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
3. G. Subramaniya Iyer
4. Surendra Nath Banerjee

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Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Newspapers)
(a) Bombay
(b) Commonweal
(c) Leader
(d) Search Light
List-II (Person who started it)

1. Annie Besant
2. Madan Mohan Malviya
3. Pheroz Shah Mehta
4. Sachindanand Singh

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Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Newspapers)
(a) Leader
(b) Bombay Chronicle
(c) Independent
(d) Justice
List-II (Launcher/Publisher)

1. Madan Mohan Malviya
2. Firoz Shah Mehta
3. T.M. Nair
4. Motilal Nehru

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Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I
(a) Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Feroz Shah Mehta
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
List-II

1. Bombay Chronicle
2. Al-Hilal
3. Young India
4. New India

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Q. Match the following and select the correct answer from the code given below.
List-I
(a) Bipin Chandra Pal
(b) Arvind Ghosh
(c) Brahmobandhab Upadhyay
(d) Mohammad Ali
List-II

1. New India
2. Comrade
3. Vande Mataram
4. Sandhya

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Q. Match the list of the Editors with that of the Papers/Magazines, they were editing.
List ‘A’ (Editors)
(a) S.A. Dange
(b) Muzaffar Ahmad
(c) Ghulam Husain
(d) M. Singarvelu
List ‘B’ (Papers/Magazine)

1. Navayug
2. Inqilab
3. Labour Kisan Gazette
4. The Socialist

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