Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?

  1. Censorship of Press Act, 1799 — Wartime-style pre-censorship introduced amid fear of a French invasion
  2. Registration Act, 1867 — Licensing restrictions and governmental power to stop any book or newspaper from circulating
  3. Licensing Regulations, 1823 — Operating a press without a licence made a penal offence
  4. Metcalfe Act, 1835 — Printer or publisher required to declare the precise premises of publication
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  2. After its inaugural session, which one of the following practices was followed by the Indian National…
  3. After the withdrawal of the Civil Disobedience Movement, Gandhi supported the Struggle-Truce-Struggle…
  4. Al-Biruni relied heavily on normative Sanskritic texts, compared the caste system with social divisions in…
  5. Although Bahadur Shah Zafar was the symbolic leader at Delhi, effective command was exercised by
  6. Although most Provincial Congress Committees opposed Jawaharlal Nehru’s nomination, Gandhi supported him for…