🏛️ History & Art-CultureUPSC 2008British Policies in India

Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?

aAl-Hilal
bComrade
cThe Indian Sociologist
dZamindar
✓ Correct answer: a) Al-Hilal
ExplanationAbul Kalam Azad, a prominent freedom fighter and scholar, brought out the journal Al-Hilal in 1912. It was a weekly published in Urdu, aimed at promoting political consciousness among Muslims and opposing British colonial rule.Other works of Abul Kalam Azad were Al-Balagh, Gubhar-e-Khatir, and India wins Freedom.Option (b),(c) and (d) are incorrect :Muhammad Ali Jauhar published and edited the weekly English-language newspaper “The Comrade.” The newspaper was banned in 1914 under the Press Act.Shyamji Krishna Verma served as the editor of “The Indian Sociologist” journal.The Zamindar newspaper was edited by Zafar Ali Khan but started by his father, Maulvi Sirajuddin Ahmad, in Sialkot as a farmer’s paper.275

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