UGC NET History Practice Question

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The English daily The Mahratta was published under the leadership of:

Bal Gangadhar Tilak ✓

Lala Lajpat Rai

Bipin Chandra Pal

Gopal Ganesh Agarkar

Tilak also published the English-language Mahratta alongside his Marathi Kesari, allowing him to reach both vernacular and English-educated readerships with his nationalist and increasingly assertive ("Lal-Bal-Pal") political message.

Young India and Navajivan were edited during the Freedom Struggle by:

Mahatma Gandhi ✓

Jawaharlal Nehru

Subhas Chandra Bose

Annie Besant

Gandhi edited Young India (English) and Navajivan (Gujarati) as his principal early journalistic platforms, using them extensively to articulate his political philosophy, campaign strategies, and social reform positions before later switching to Harijan.

Who founded the newspaper National Herald in 1938 in Lucknow?

Jawaharlal Nehru ✓

Motilal Nehru

Madan Mohan Malaviya

Tej Bahadur Sapru

Jawaharlal Nehru founded the National Herald in Lucknow in 1938 as a nationalist English-language daily, distinct from his father Motilal Nehru's earlier associated paper The Independent — reflecting Jawaharlal's own growing political prominence by the late 1930s.

The daily newspaper New India and weekly Commonweal were published to advocate Home Rule by:

Annie Besant ✓

Bipin Chandra Pal

Sarojini Naidu

George Arundale

Annie Besant published New India and Commonweal specifically to advocate for the Home Rule movement she co-led with Tilak from 1916 — using both publications as key organs to build political momentum for self-government.

Who was the author of the revolutionary work Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (1901)?

Dadabhai Naoroji ✓

R.C. Dutt

M.G. Ranade

Dinshaw Wacha

Dadabhai Naoroji's Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (1901) systematically presented his "Drain of Wealth" theory with statistical rigor, arguing British rule was economically draining India — a foundational text of early Indian economic nationalism.

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