History Practice Quiz 84
10 questions · 12 minutes
Q1.Who penned the popular Assamese song ‘O Mor Apunar Desh’ (O’ my beloved land)?
Q2.Where were the public libraries, established from the early twentieth century, primarily located?
Q3.Before which year was the colonial state under the East India Company generally not very concerned with censorship?
Q4.In the early period, against whom were the East India Company's initial measures to control printed matter primarily directed?
Q5.In which year was the Vernacular Press Act passed, which was modelled on the Irish Press Laws?
Q6.What was a key provision of the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?
Q7.In which year was Balgangadhar Tilak imprisoned for writing sympathetically about deported Punjab revolutionaries in his newspaper Kesari?
Q8.Which newspaper was associated with Balgangadhar Tilak, in which he wrote sympathetically about deported Punjab revolutionaries?
Q9.The newspaper 'The Statesman' was founded in which year?
Q10.Which act was passed at the outbreak of the Second World War, allowing censoring of war-related topics and bringing reports about the Quit India movement under its purview?