Which nationalist newspaper was founded by Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh in 1868 and converted overnight into an English publication to bypass the severe censorship and penal restrictions of the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?

💡 Solution & Explanation

Amrita Bazar Patrika was originally published as a bilingual weekly in Bengali and English, but following the promulgation of the Vernacular Press Act of 1878 by Lord Lytton, it transformed overnight into an exclusively English-language newspaper to evade discriminatory state suppression. The Hindu was founded in Madras by G. Subramania Iyer and others in 1878. Somaprakasha was a Bengali weekly founded by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar that was specifically targeted by the Vernacular Press Act. Kesari was a nationalist Marathi newspaper founded by Bal Gangadhar Tilak.