UGC NET History Practice Question

The journal Ghadar, published in San Francisco in Punjabi, Urdu, and English, was launched in 1913 by the:

Ghadar Party ✓

India House

Berlin Committee

Abhinav Bharat

The Ghadar Party, formed largely by Indian immigrants on the US West Coast, launched its multilingual Ghadar journal in 1913 to mobilize overseas Indians against British rule — a distinct revolutionary network from the separate London-based India House or the Berlin Committee.

The book The Indian War of Independence 1857, which characterized the revolt as a planned national war, was authored by:

V.D. Savarkar ✓

S.N. Sen

R.C. Majumdar

S.B. Chaudhuri

Savarkar's The Indian War of Independence 1857 controversially argued the revolt was a planned, coordinated national uprising rather than a spontaneous mutiny — a nationalist historiographical interpretation later contested by historians like S.N. Sen and R.C. Majumdar, who offered more cautious assessments.

The official government historian appointed to write the history of the 1857 Revolt who authored Eighteen Fifty-Seven was:

Surendra Nath Sen ✓

R.C. Majumdar

Eric Stokes

Thomas Lowe

Surendra Nath Sen was commissioned by the Government of India to write the official centenary history Eighteen Fifty-Seven (1957) — a more measured, source-based assessment than Savarkar's earlier nationalist framing, though still debated by later historians.

Who authored the famous historical assessment The Sepoy Mutiny and the Rebellion of 1857?

R.C. Majumdar ✓

S.N. Sen

S.B. Chaudhuri

George Forrest

R.C. Majumdar's The Sepoy Mutiny and the Rebellion of 1857 offered his own distinct, more skeptical assessment of the "national uprising" framing, part of the broader ongoing historiographical debate over how to characterize the events of 1857.

The newspaper Voice of India was started in Bombay by:

Dadabhai Naoroji ✓

Pherozeshah Mehta

Dinshaw Wacha

K.T. Telang

Dadabhai Naoroji started Voice of India in Bombay, part of his sustained lifelong effort — spanning journalism, the East India Association, and eventually the British Parliament — to publicize India's economic grievances under colonial rule.

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