Who among the following founded the 'Amrita Bazar Patrika' in 1868 as a Bengali-language weekly before converting it into an English newspaper to bypass government censorship?

💡 Solution & Explanation

Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh founded the Amrita Bazar Patrika in 1868, which transitioned to an English daily overnight to evade press curbs under the Vernacular Press Act of 1878. Other leaders like Surendranath Banerjee and G. Subramania Iyer edited prominent contemporary publications like The Bengalee and The Hindu respectively.