Top 250+ Solved History of Journalism in India MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ……….were the first Europeans who introduced printing press in India.
a. british
b. french
c. dutch
d. portuguese
Q. Annie Besant came to India on 16 November 1893 to attend the Annual Conventionof the Theosophical Society at ………..
a. adyar
b. banglore
c. trivandrum
d. tirunelveli
Q. Who founded a weekly newspaper ‘Commonweal’ in January 1914?
a. annie besant
b. s.n.b banerje
c. sir syed ahmad khan
d. mahatma gandhi
Q. Who started ‘new India’?
a. annie besant
b. mahatma gandhi
c. lord rippon
d. wellesley c) delhousie
Q. Who started 'Young India'?
a. mahatma gandhi
b. annie besant
c. madan mohan malviya
d. pherozeshah mehta
Q. Mahatma Gandhi started his first paper; ………..was in South Africa.
a. my experiments with truth
b. indian opinion
c. young india
d. new india’
Q. A pioneering foursome embarked upon a publication entitled the Western Star from………………in 1860.
a. cochin
b. travancore
c. irinjalakkuda
d. palakkad
Q. ……………………, who had left England after completing his studies, took over asthe Western Star paper’s editor.
a. charles lawson
b. devji bhimji
c. v.raman pillai
d. dr.herman gundart
Q. …………….migrated to Madras to launch the Madras Mail in later years.
a. c.v.raman pillai
b. devji bhimji
c. lawson's maiden
d. charles lawson
Q. The history of modern journalism in Bengal was inaugurated by …………….
a. augustus hicky
b. mckinley
c. hermione granger
d. john pilger
Q. Bengal gazette was the journal of ………………….
a. edmund burke
b. samuel f. b. morse
c. john pilger
d. augustus hicky
Q. The first Bangla newspaper, Samachar Darpan, was published from ……………in1818.
a. calcutta
b. serampore
c. madras
d. bombay
Q. The Santishtavadi was outspoken in its criticism of the powers that be, and soon fellfoul of the ……………….Government which ordered its closure.
a. thrissur
b. cochin
c. irinjalakkuda
d. travancore
Q. The …………………created history in Malayalam journalism by becoming the firstmartyr to the cause of freedom of the press.
a. santishtavadi
b. the malabar spectator
c. atmavidhya kahalam
d. swaraj
Q. The Malayalam paper ‘Satyanadakahalam’ started publication modestly as afortnightly from Kunammavu in October…………...
a. 1816
b. 1826
c. 1836
d. 1876