14000+ MCQs Modern History (Development of Press and Education System in Modern India)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 01/05/2026
1. Who amongst the following Englishmen, first translated Bhagavad Gita into English?
2. Which of the following statement is/are correct?
I. Censorship of Press Act, 1799 was introduced by Lord Wellesley. II. Licensing regulation, 1823 was introduced by John Adams. III. Press Act of 1835 by Metcalfe. Select the correct answer by using the codes given below.
3. Given below are the names of freedom fighters and the newspapers started by among these which combination is incorrect?
4. When was the Education Policy of Macaulay implemented?
5. Which one of the following was the first to be declared as Central University?
6. When did the British Government appoint Sadler University Commission for reforms in education?
7. Who among the following had launched the paper ‘Qaumi Awaz’?
8. Where was the first Madrasa set up by the British in India?
9. Which one of the following had vigorously advocated for religious education in the Indian universities?
10. Hartog Committee Report of 1929 had suggested for transforming which of the following types of Education into community development centre for rural upliftment?
11. Sadler Commission was related to
12. In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff, who of the following established Hindu College at Calcutta?
13. Which of the following gave the suggestion to divide the secondary level curriculum into course A and course B?
14. Through which newspaper published from Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bijoliya Movement the subject of discussion in India?
15. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
16. The first Editor of the Journal ‘Indian Opinion’ was
17. Who was associated with the formation of the Deccan Education Society?
18. Who among the following was the first to translate Kalidasa’ famous work ‘Shakuntala’ into English?
19. Who founded the Anglo-Vedic College?
20. Match List I (Newspapers) with List II (Editors/Founders) and select the correct answer from the codes given below lists.
| List-I (Newspapers) | List-II (Editors/Founders) |
| A. Hindu | 1. Dadabhai Naoroji |
| B. Sudharak | 2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| C. Voice of India | 3. G. Subramaniya Iyer |
| D. Bengalee | 4. Surendranath Banerjee |
21. Who was the following laid the foundation stone of Banaras Hindu University?
22. The establishment of the first women’s university in Mumbai was the result of the effort of
23. Which one of the following was a Journal brought out by Abdul Kalam Azad?
24. Who among the following started the newspaper ‘Som Prakash’?
25. From the options given below, find the correct combination of the names of Editors of the nationalist newspapers: The Hindu, Kesari, Bengali, Hindustani and Sudharak.
26. Consider the following statements regarding Vernacular Press Act.
I. The magistrate’s action was final and no appeal could be made in a court of law. II. A Vernacular newspaper could get an exemption from the operation of the Act by Submitting proof to a government censor. Which of the following statement is/are correct?
27. The first Hindi newspaper ‘Udant Martand’ (30th May, 1826) was published from
28. The propounder of ‘Filtration Theory’ in India’s educational policy was
29. Which one of the following newspapers advocated revolutionary terrorism during the period of Indian freedom struggle?
I. Sandhya II. Yugantar III. Nava Kaal Choose the correct answer from the codes given below.
30. Who started the newspaper ‘Indian Sociologist’ abroad?
31. Who among the following was offered the membership of the Royal Asiatic Society of Paris?
32. Which one of the following statements about the English Education Act of 1835 is not correct?
33. Arrange the following events (Commissions on Education) in their chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below.
I. Hunter Commission
II. Sadler Commission
III. Wood’s Despatch
IV. Sargent Plan
34. The editor of the paper ‘Hindu Patriot’ Sri Harish Chandra Mukherjee was known to have helped the
35. Which one of the popular magazines of the revolutionary period criticised the Congress for various reasons?
36. Which of the following Act relaxed the restrictions put by the Metcalfe Act?
37. From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880?
38. The aim of education as stated by Wood’s Despatch of 1854 was
39. The ‘Swadesh Vahini’ was edited by
40. The Journal ‘Ghadar’ of Ghadar Party was a
41. Which Urdu newspaper was started by Lala Lajpat Rai from Lahore in 1920?
42. In the Hunter Commission Report, special emphasis was laid on the development of
43. The first issue of a weekly paper ‘Harijan’ started by Gandhiji was published on February 11, 1933 from which of the following cities?
44. Who was the first editor of the Amrita Bazar Patrika?
46. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
47. The first Newspaper published by the Indians in English language was
48. The first newspaper in India was
49. Who affiliated himself with the English Journal ‘Vande Matram’?
50. Who in America started to issue newspaper ‘Free India’?