Development of Press in Modern India One Liner Questions & Answers
Questions | Answer | |
1 | The first newspaper in India was – | Bengal Gazette |
2 | Which was the first newspaper published in India? | The Bengal Gazette |
3 | Who had primarily implemented Press Censorship? | Wellesley |
4 | Who repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878? | Lord Ripon |
5 | Who introduced the Vernacular Press Act? | Lord Lytton |
6 | Under whose Governor-Generalship was the Vernacular Act repealed? | Lord Ripon |
7 | Who was the first Indian to go to jail in the performance of his duty as a journalist – | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
8 | Who in America started to issue the newspaper ‘Free India’? | Tarak Nath Das |
9 | Persian Weekly ‘Miratul Akhbar’ was Published by – | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
10 | The first Hindi Newspaper ‘Udant Martand’ (30th May 1826) was published from – | Kolkata |
11 | From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880? | Calcutta |
12 | In which language was the first issue of the Journal Gadar published? | Urdu |
13 | The journal ‘Gadar’ of Gadar Party was a – | Weekly Journal |
14 | Who founded the ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’? | Shishir Kumar Ghose |
15 | Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle? | Kesari |
16 | With which newspapers/magazines, Mahatma Gandhi was not associated? | Yugantar |
17 | Who started the newspaper ‘Som Prakash’? | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar |
18 | Which paper was essentially the mouthpiece of the policies of liberals? | Leader |
19 | Which was not the language in which the ‘Indian Opinion’ paper was published? | Urdu |
20 | The first editor of the journal ‘Indian Opinion’ was – | Mansukhal Nazar |
21 | The ‘Young India’ was started as a weekly by – | The Home Rule Party |
22 | Which journal was not associated with revolutionary activities? | Young India |
23 | The first Newspaper published by the Indians in the English language was – | Hindu Patriot |
24 | The editor of the ‘Hindu Patriot’ who strongly supported the Indigo Movement was – | Harish Chandra Mukherjee |
25 | Who affiliated himself with the English Journal ‘Vande Matram’? | Arbind Ghosh |
26 | Which newspaper used to be published in Patna? | Indian Nation |
27 | The ‘Swadesh Vahini’ was edited by – | K. Ram Krishna Pillai |
28 | The English Newspaper ‘Independent’ was associated to – | Motilal Nehru |
29 | Through this newspaper published in Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bijoliya movement the subject of discussion in India – | Pratap |
30 | ‘Harijan’ was started by – | Gandhiji |
31 | The first issue of a weekly paper ‘Harijan’ started by Gandhiji was published on February 11, 1933, from which city? | Poona (now Pune) |
32 | The Marathi fortnightly ‘Bahishkrit Bharat’ was started by – | B.R. Ambedkar |
33 | Which was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad? | Al-Hilal |
34 | Which Urdu newspaper was started by Lajpat Rai from Lahore in 1920? | Vande Matram |
35 | Who had launched the paper ‘Qaumi Awaz’? | Jawaharlal Nehru |
36 | To whom Commonweal is related? | Annie Besant |
37 | Who was the editor of the revolutionary paper ‘Vande Mataram’? | V.D. Savarkar |
38 | Which was not a ‘nationalist’ newspaper? | The Times of India |