Match the following and choose the correct answer.Newspaper Editor I. Free Hindustan a. Mahatma Gandhi II. Indian Opinion b. Dadabhai Nauroji III. Voice of India c. Surendranath Banerjee IV. Bengalee d. Taraknath Das
I – d, II – a, III – b, IV – c
The correct matching is I – d, II – a, III – b, IV – c, option 2.
| Newspaper | Editor | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Free Hindustan | Taraknath Das | Started in 1908 from Vancouver and later New York; a revolutionary paper among Indians on the Pacific coast of North America. Tolstoy’s celebrated “Letter to a Hindoo” was written in reply to its editor |
| Indian Opinion | Mahatma Gandhi | Founded in 1903 at Durban in South Africa, printed at the Phoenix Settlement in English and Gujarati; the vehicle of the satyagraha campaign there |
| Voice of India | Dadabhai Naoroji | Begun in 1883 to place Indian opinion before the British public; part of the same effort as his Poverty and Un-British Rule in India and the drain theory |
| Bengalee | Surendranath Banerjee | Edited from 1879; he was imprisoned in 1883 for contempt of court over an article in it, the first Indian journalist to be jailed in that way |
How to solve it quickly. Two pairings are very well known: Gandhi with Indian Opinion from his South African years, and Surendranath Banerjee with the Bengalee. Fixing II – a and IV – c eliminates every option but the second, and the remaining two pairs then follow.
A pattern worth noticing. The four papers span the whole range of the nationalist press: a revolutionary journal published abroad, a satyagraha paper in the diaspora, a moderate journal aimed at British public opinion, and a provincial nationalist daily in India. Between them they show why the press was treated by the colonial government as a political force in its own right, and why the Vernacular Press Act and later press laws were directed at it.
Hence, the answer is I – d, II – a, III – b, IV – c.
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Important Questions from National movement (1885 - 1919)
- Which of the following events led to the division of the Indian National Congress into Moderates and Extremists in 1907?
- In which year did the Indian National Congress split due to differences between extremists and moderates?
- Which among the following Acts was regarded as Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms?
Statement I:
In 1866 Dadabhai Navroji organized the East India Association in London to discuss Indian questions to influence British Public opinion. Branches of the Association were organized in major Indian cities.
Statement II :
He showed that the poverty and economic backwardsness of India were not inherent in local conditions but were caused by colonial rule which was draining India of its wealth and capital.
In the light of the above statement, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :- The Morley-Minto reforms came in the year _________.
