UGC NET History Practice Question

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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.

Sanjibani, the Bengali newspaper that first raised the call for boycott of British goods during the Swadeshi movement, was edited by:

Krishna Kumar Mitra ✓

Surendranath Banerjea

Aurobindo Ghosh

Bipin Chandra Pal

Krishna Kumar Mitra's Sanjibani is credited with first raising the boycott call that became central to the Swadeshi movement following the 1905 Partition of Bengal — an important, sometimes overlooked, origin point for a tactic later widely adopted across the nationalist movement.

The daily nationalist newspaper Yugantar was founded in 1906 in Bengal by:

Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Bhupendranath Datta ✓

Aurobindo Ghosh

Rash Behari Bose

Jatindranath Mukherjee

Barindra Kumar Ghosh (Aurobindo's brother) and Bhupendranath Datta founded Yugantar in 1906 as a more explicitly revolutionary Bengali paper, complementing Aurobindo Ghosh's own separate English-language Bande Mataram (Calcutta edition) in advancing radical nationalist politics.

The revolutionary journal Sandhya was published in Bengal by:

Brahma Bandhab Upadhyay ✓

Aurobindo Ghosh

Bipin Chandra Pal

Pramathanath Mitra

Brahma Bandhab Upadhyay published Sandhya as part of the wave of radical Bengali revolutionary journalism following the 1905 Partition of Bengal — one of several such papers (alongside Yugantar) that pushed nationalist politics in a more militant direction.

The Aitchison Commission (1886) was appointed by Lord Dufferin to make recommendations regarding:

Public Services (Civil Services reform) ✓

Army reorganization

Land revenue settlement

Statutory Police reforms

The Aitchison Commission examined Public/Civil Service recruitment and organization, part of a recurring colonial-era pattern of official commissions investigating specific administrative concerns — Indian nationalist leaders frequently critiqued such commissions for their limited responsiveness to Indian demands (e.g., for simultaneous ICS exams in India).

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