UGC NET History Practice Question

The official report on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre commissioned by the British government was compiled by the:

Hunter Committee ✓

Butler Committee

Simon Commission

Whitley Commission

The Hunter Committee was the official British government inquiry into the Jallianwala Bagh massacre — its relatively lenient conclusions regarding General Dyer's conduct were widely criticized by Indian nationalists, prompting the Congress's own separate, non-official inquiry.

The non-official enquiry committee set up by the Indian National Congress to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy was headed by:

Madan Mohan Malaviya ✓

Motilal Nehru

Mahatma Gandhi

C.R. Das

Madan Mohan Malaviya headed the Congress's own non-official inquiry into Jallianwala Bagh, providing an alternative, more critical account to the official Hunter Committee report — a good example of the value of comparing official and non-official sources on the same event.

Which archival collection comprises private letters, personal diaries, and memoirs of British administrative officers in India?

Private Papers / Family Archives (such as India Office Records) ✓

Home Political Files

Military Department Proceedings

Foreign and Secret Department Records

Private Papers and Family Archives (a significant portion held within the India Office Records collection) preserve the personal, often more candid, correspondence and diaries of colonial officials — a valuable complement to, and sometimes corrective of, official government proceedings.

The Al-Hilal weekly newspaper launched in 1912 to arouse anti-imperialist consciousness among Muslims was edited by:

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ✓

Shaukat Ali

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad founded Al-Hilal in 1912 to promote anti-imperialist, pan-Islamic, and nationalist consciousness among Indian Muslims — a markedly different political direction from Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's earlier, more pro-British Aligarh movement.

Comrade (in English) and Hamdard (in Urdu) were newspapers established by:

Maulana Muhammad Ali ✓

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Hasrat Mohani

Hakim Ajmal Khan

Maulana Muhammad Ali (of the Ali brothers, prominent in the Khilafat movement) founded Comrade and Hamdard — distinct publications from Azad's Al-Hilal, though both figures were leading Muslim nationalist voices of the same broad period.

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