Question

Who is the first editor of Amrita Bazaar Patrika?
1. Motilal Ghosh
2. Manindra Nandi
3. Satish Chandra Mukherjee
4. Sunder lal

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Motilal Ghosh

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Motilal Ghosh.

• Amrita Bazar Patrika was started in 1868 by two brothers, Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Moti Lal Ghosh, sons of a wealthy merchant in the Bengal province.
• Their family had built a Bazar and had named it after Amritamoyee, the mother of Sisir and Moti Lal Ghosh.
• Amrita Bazaar Patrika first started out as a weekly newspaper.
• Amrita Bazar Patrika was started in 1868.
• The newspaper was accused of sedition and in an attempt to crackdown on the media, Lord Lytton, the then Viceroy of India, promulgated the Vernacular Press Act, in 1878.
• The newspaper continued with its intrepid reporting and vehemently opposed the partition of Bengal in 1905.
• It described Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India at the time of the partition of Bengal, as 'Young and a little foppish, and without previous training but invested with unlimited powers.'