History Practice Set 9 (Development of Press in Modern India)

No. of questions - 20

Time - 10 min

Negative marking : -0.25 mark

1. 
The first newspaper in India was
2. 
Which one of the following was not the language in which ‘Indian Opinion’ paper was published?
3. 
Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?
4. 
Persian Weekly ‘Miratul Akhbar’ was published by
5. 
Which journal was not associated with revolutionary activities?
6. 
Under whose Governor-General ship was the Vernacular Act repealed?
7. 
Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
8. 
Which of the following papers was essentially the mouthpiece of the policies of liberals?
9. 
Who was the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a journalist?
10. 
The first editor of the journal ‘Indian Opinion’ was
11. 
Who among the following started the newspaper’s ‘Som Prakash’?
12. 
In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Ghadar published?
13. 
Who in America started to issue newspaper ‘Free India’?
14. 
From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880?
15. 
The ‘Young India’ was started as a weekly by
16. 
Which one of the popular magazines of the revolutionary period criticized the Congress for various reasons?
17. 
The first Hindi Newspaper ‘Udatt Martand’ (30th May, 1826) was published from
18. 
Who founded the ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’?
19. 
Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle?
20. 
Who among the following had primarily implemented the Press Censorship?
21. 
The journal ‘Ghadar’ of Ghadar Party was a
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