14000+ MCQs Modern History (Development of Press and Education System in Modern India)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 29/07/2026
1. In whose reign was English education Introduced in India?
2. Through which Educational Report, Calcutta University came into existence?
3. Hartog Committee Report of 1929 had suggested for transforming which of the following types of Education into community development centre for rural upliftment?
4. When was the Education Policy of Macaulay implemented?
5. In the Hunter Commission Report, special emphasis was laid on the development of
6. Which of the following act/regulation empowered the magistrate to confiscate press property which published objectionable material likely to cause incitement to murder/acts of violence against the Extremist nationalist activity?
I. Indian Press Act, 1910. II. Newspaper (incitement to offences) Act, 1908 III. Vernacular Press Act, 1878 IV. Registration Act, 1878 Choose the correct answer using the codes given below.
7. In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Ghadar published?
8. 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.
9. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
10. The editor of the paper ‘Hindu Patriot’ Sri Harish Chandra Mukherjee was known to have helped the
11. Which one of the following was a Journal brought out by Abdul Kalam Azad?
12. The first Editor of the Journal ‘Indian Opinion’ was
13. 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.
14. Who founded the ‘Amrita Bazar Patrika’?
15. Consider the following statements.
I. Jonathan Duncan had founded the Sanskrit college in Banaras. II. Lord Cornwallis had introduced civil services in India. Which of the above statements is/are correct?
16. In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff, who of the following established Hindu College at Calcutta?
17. Who among the following was offered the membership of the Royal Asiatic Society of Paris?
18. To whom Commonweal is related?
19. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle?
20. Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?
21. Which among the following had primarily implemented the Press censorship?
22. In which newspaper ‘Boycott’ was first declared?
23. Who was the following laid the foundation stone of Banaras Hindu University?
24. The propounder of ‘Filtration Theory’ in India’s educational policy was
25. The main reason for the British Government to spread Modern Education in India during Pre-independence period was
26. Through which newspaper published from Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bijoliya Movement the subject of discussion in India?
27. 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
28. Who of the following set up Mahila Arya Samaj to improve women’s education?
29. The establishment of the first women’s university in Mumbai was the result of the effort of
30. Which of the following newspapers used to be published from Patna?
31. Who was the Editor of ‘Searchlight’ newspaper in Bihar?
32. Which of the following had first introduced the Downward Filtration Theory in the world?
33. Which Urdu newspaper was started by Lala Lajpat Rai from Lahore in 1920?
34. Which of the following led to the introduction of English Education in India?
I. Charter Act of 1813 II. General Committee of Public Instruction, 1823 III. Orientalist and Anglicist Controversy Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
35. Lord Macaulay was related to
36. The aim of education as stated by Wood’s Despatch of 1854 was
37. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
38. Who affiliated himself with the English Journal ‘Vande Matram’?
39. Where was the first Madrasa set up by the British in India?
40. Who in America started to issue newspaper ‘Free India’?
41. When did the British Government appoint Sadler University Commission for reforms in education?
42. The Journal ‘Ghadar’ of Ghadar Party was a
43. Who among the following was the first to translate Kalidasa’ famous work ‘Shakuntala’ into English?
44. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
45. The first issue of a weekly paper ‘Harijan’ started by Gandhiji was published on February 11, 1933 from which of the following cities?
46. Who started the first English Newspaper in India?
47. The ‘Anglicist-Orientalist Controversy’ came to end by
I. Macaulay’s Minute II. Mentick’s Resolution III. Wood’s despatch IV. Lord Curzon’s Education and Policy Choose the correct answer by using the following codes.
48. Who founded the Anglo-Vedic College?
49. Which of the following were two newspapers published by Annie Besant?
Select the correct answer using the codes given below. I. Commonweal II. New India III. New Hindu IV. The Aryans
50. Which of the following is correctly matched?