Time Left: 600 sec

1. Who began editing the Bengal Gazette in 1780, the first English weekly in India?

2. Who brought out the first Indian-owned newspaper, the Bengal Gazette (weekly)?

3. Which social reformer published the Sambad Kaumudi in 1821?

4. Which seminary published thousands of fatwas guiding Muslim readers in everyday life?

5. Which sixteenth-century text by Tulsidas was printed in Calcutta in 1810?

6. Which famous painter produced mythological paintings later printed for mass circulation?

7. From the 1870s, which visual form began appearing in Indian journals and newspapers?

8. Who secretly learnt to read in Urdu despite her conservative Muslim family’s restrictions?

9. Who wrote the autobiography Amar Jiban in 1876, the first full-length autobiography in Bengali?

10. Which Marathi writer wrote with anger about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu widows?

11. Which tract in Punjab taught women to be obedient wives?

12. Which area in Calcutta became famous for printing cheap popular books, including scandalous literature?

13. Who wrote Gulamgiri in 1871, attacking caste discrimination?

14. Which Kanpur millworker wrote Chhote Aur Bade Ka Sawal in 1938?

15. The poems of which Kanpur millworker were published as Sacchi Kavitayan?

16. Which 1878 Act gave the colonial government rights to censor reports in Indian-language newspapers?

17. Which nationalist leader’s writings in Kesari led to his imprisonment in 1908?

18. During World War I, newspapers were forced to furnish securities under which rules?

19. In 1942, about 90 newspapers were suppressed under which act?

20. In 1922, Gandhi declared that the fight for Swaraj was also a fight for: