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History of Journalism in India
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1. The Madras Courier was started in ……………
2. Who passed the Vernacular Press Act?
3. The ‘Travancore Herald’, was printed in English from the C.M.S. Press…………………..
4. In …………. Varghese Mappilai formed a literary club, Bhashaposhini Sabha.
5. In 1864 a Malayalam edition of the Western Star started publication from ………………under the banner Paschimataraka.
6. Who started Amrita Bazar Patrika in 1868?
7. The Indian Languages Newspapers Association (ILNA) was formed on June 14, ………………, on the eve of the introduction of control on newsprint during the Second World War.
8. .The Atmavidyakahalam edited by Vagbhadananda Guru from …………….in the late thirties was yet another weekly noted for its sharp attacks against superstitions and conventions.
9. Bengal Gazette was published James Augustus Hicky by in ………………..
10. …………………..is sometimes called the father of Malayalam Journalism"."
11. Mahatma Gandhi started his first paper; ………..was in South Africa.
12. The name of the newspaper that Gandhi brought out in South Africa was
13. The Vivekodayam was revived in 1967 as a magazine and published from……………...
14. The Arch Bishop of Ernakulam brought out the Malabar Mail from Ernakulam in………………..
15. The management of the ……………..changed hands in 1938 some time after the death of Kunhirama Menon.
16. A.Balakrishana Pillai, who had earlier been eased out of editorial responsibility of the Samadarshi, had in the meanwhile launched a new periodical entitled………………….
17. The Spectator Press of Kozhikode came out in 1886 with a Malayalam periodical entitled the…………………..
18. The Atmavidyakahalam edited by ………………..from Kozhikode in the late thirties was yet another weekly noted for its sharp attacks against superstitions and conventions.
19. C. Krishna Pillai was the main promoter of the paper …………….and later C.V. Raman Pillai became its editor.
20. The appearance of the …………….from Tellicherry in 1907 marks the next important milestone in the history of the press in Kerala.
21. A pioneering foursome embarked upon a publication entitled the Western Star from ………………in 1860.
22. In 1926 a change in format was introduced and the ………………….joined the early ranks of 'illustrated weeklies'.
23. Who edited a PersianWeekly called ‘Mirat-ul-Akhbar’.
24. The Prabhatham started publication from ……………….with E.M.S. Namboodiripad as its editor.
25. The paper ……………….was edited by T.J. Paily in the first instance and later by Kalloor Oommen Philippose Asan.

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