Top 250+ Solved History of Journalism in India MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ……………. mastered Malayalam language and compiled the first comprehensiveMalayalam-English dictionary.
a. gundert
b. kesari balakrishna pillai
c. michael hodges
d. max muller
Q. ……………..set up a printing press named Kerala Mithram in Kochi.
a. devji bhimji
b. kandathil varghese mappilai
c. kesari balakrishna pillai
d. s. kasthuriranga iyengar
Q. In January 1881, under the ownership of Devji, a newspaper named KeralaMithram was started in……………..
a. kottayam
b. travancore
c. thalassery
d. kochi
Q. In …………. Varghese Mappilai formed a literary club, Bhashaposhini Sabha.
a. 1851
b. 1861
c. 1871
d. 1891
Q. ……………… was started in1886 in order to promote the interests of the Nair community in Travancore.
a. malayali
b. harijan
c. navajivan
d. lokamanyan
Q. C. Krishna Pillai was the main promoter of the paper …………….and later C.V.Raman Pillai became its editor.
a. vivekodayam
b. lokamanyan
c. malayali
d. navajivan
Q. Vakkam Abdul Khadar Moulavi, an enlightened nationalist, started the paper…………….on January 19, 1905.
a. indian opinion
b. swadeshabhimani
c. harijan,
d. navajivan
Q. ……………… was the first Indian to start a domestic news agency, called theAssociated Press of India (API), in 1908.
a. k.c. roy
b. michael hodges
c. max muller
d. s. kasthuriranga iyengar
Q. In June 1847 witnessed the primordial birth pangs of Malayalam journalismas eight cyclostyled sheets in demy octavo size were churned out from a press at …………….near Thalassery.
a. illikkunnu
b. dharmadam
c. muzhappilangad
d. chettamkunnu
Q. Who was the editor of Rajyasamacharam?
a. dr.herman gundart
b. william logan
c. charles lawson
d. devji bhimji
Q. Who started Amrita Bazar Patrika in 1868?
a. moti lal ghosh andsisir ghosh
b. navin chandra railways
c. harish chandra mukherjee
d. b.k. bhatt and m.m. ghosh
Q. Who is deemed as the father of Indian Journalism?
a. s.n. banerjee
b. devendra nath ghosh
c. dadabhai nauroji
d. j.a. hicky