UGC NET History Practice Question

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.

Who wrote the influential book Gulamgiri (1873), dedicated to the American movement against slavery?

Jyotirao Phule ✓

B.R. Ambedkar

Savitribai Phule

E.V. Ramasamy Naicker

Jyotirao Phule wrote Gulamgiri ("Slavery") in 1873, explicitly dedicating it to the American anti-slavery movement and drawing a deliberate comparison between caste oppression in India and racial slavery in America — a landmark early anti-caste text.

The official report of the Sadler University Commission (1917–19) dealt primarily with reforms in:

Calcutta University and secondary education structures ✓

Primary rural schools exclusively

Technical engineering colleges

Vernacular religious seminaries

The Sadler Commission specifically examined Calcutta University's structure and the broader secondary education system feeding into it — its recommendations influenced subsequent reorganization of higher education administration in Bengal and elsewhere.

The journal Bande Mataram, published from Paris, was edited by which revolutionary freedom fighter?

Bhikaiji Cama ✓

Shyamji Krishna Varma

Lala Har Dayal

Virendranath Chattopadhyaya

Bhikaiji Cama published the revolutionary journal Bande Mataram from Paris, part of the wider network of Indian revolutionary activity operating from Europe in the early 20th century, alongside Shyamji Krishna Varma's separate London-based Indian Sociologist.

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