Role Of Press

Question 1

Censor of the press

Answer 1

1799 by Wellesley

Question 2

Regulation of 1823 was based on the recommendation of

Answer 2

Munro

Question 3

Ram Mohan Roy’s Mirat-ul-Akbar had to stop functioning owing to which act

Answer 3

Regulation of 1823

Question 4

Regulation of 1823 was repealed by _____ under the Press Act of _____

Answer 4

Metcalfe, 1835

Question 5

Vernacular Press Act was introduced by ___

Answer 5

Lytton

Question 6

Who was the first Indian Journalist to be imprisoned? When? Under which act? For which newspaper?

Answer 6

Surendranath Banerjee, 1883, VPA, The Bengalee

Question 7

Newspaper (Incitement to offence) Act was introduced in tne year

Answer 7

1908

Question 8

‘X’ was deported to Mandalay for six years under the charge of sedition under Newspaper (Incitement to Offence) Act, 1908. Find ‘X,

Answer 8

Tilak

Question 9

This act revived the features of VPA

Answer 9

Indian Press Act, 1910

Question 10

This Act gave sweeping powers to provincial governments to suppress propaganda for Civil Disobedience Movement

Answer 10

Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931