14000+ MCQs Modern History (Development of Press and Education System in Modern India)
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
MCQ Pattern
Date:- 28/10/2026
1. Which Urdu newspaper was started by Lala Lajpat Rai from Lahore in 1920?
2. During India’s colonial period, the theory of Downward filtration was related to
3. The propounder of ‘Filtration Theory’ in India’s educational policy was
4. Which among the following had primarily implemented the Press censorship?
5. Regarding Wood’s Despatch, which of the following statements are true?
I. Grants-in-Aid system was introduced. II. Establishment of universities was recommended. III. English as a medium of instruction at all levels of education was recommended. Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
6. Who founded the Anglo-Vedic College?
7. Which one of the following was the first to be declared as Central University?
8. The first newspaper in India was
9. 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?
10. Who was the fist Vice-Chancellor of Indian women’s university of Poona in 1916?
11. Who was the founder of Mahakali Pathshala in Calcutta?
12. 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
13. Which journal was not associated with the revolutionary activities?
14. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle?
15. Which one of the following was not the language in which ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper was published?
16. Which of the following had first introduced the Downward Filtration Theory in the world?
17. Who among the following was offered the membership of the Royal Asiatic Society of Paris?
18. 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 |
19. Lord Macaulay was related to
20. The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded by
21. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
22. Who is the liberator of Indian newspaper?
23. The first Editor of the Journal ‘Indian Opinion’ was
24. When did the British Government appoint Sadler University Commission for reforms in education?
25. When the Hindu College was founded?
26. Who amongst the following Englishmen, first translated Bhagavad Gita into English?
27. 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
28. The editor of the paper ‘Hindu Patriot’ Sri Harish Chandra Mukherjee was known to have helped the
29. The Fergusson College at Pune was founded in 1885 by
30. From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880?
31. Which of the following Act relaxed the restrictions put by the Metcalfe Act?
32. One of the following organisations was not associated with National Education Movement in the early twentieth century.
33. 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.
34. Who founded Indian Women’s University?
35. Charles Wood’s despatch was related to which of the following?
36. In whose reign was English education Introduced in India?
37. Which one of the popular magazines of the revolutionary period criticised the Congress for various reasons?
38. 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.
39. Which one of the following statements about the English Education Act of 1835 is not correct?
40. What was the name of the first Hindi newspaper of India, published by Jugal Kishore?
41. Hartog Committee Report of 1929 had suggested for transforming which of the following types of Education into community development centre for rural upliftment?
42. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
43. The suppression of Indian language newspapers under the Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was caused by the criticism of
44. In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff, who of the following established Hindu College at Calcutta?
45. Given below are the names of freedom fighters and the newspapers started by among these which combination is incorrect?
46. Through which newspaper published from Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bijoliya Movement the subject of discussion in India?
47. The first issue of a weekly paper ‘Harijan’ started by Gandhiji was published on February 11, 1933 from which of the following cities?
48. In the Hunter Commission Report, special emphasis was laid on the development of
49. The first Hindi newspaper ‘Udant Martand’ (30th May, 1826) was published from
50. Which one of the following had vigorously advocated for religious education in the Indian universities?