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WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 34 of 200

Q34
Indian National MovementPress, Literature & Cultural Institutions
Newspaper the ‘Bengalee’ was founded by
  1. a.Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee.
  2. b.Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
  3. c.Surendranath Bandopadhyay.
  4. d.Nabagopal Mitra.

Answer: (C) Surendranath Bandopadhyay.

The Bengalee is identified with Surendranath Banerjea, who took it over in 1879 and made it a leading nationalist daily. W. C. Bonnerjee, Bankim Chandra (who edited Bangadarshan) and Nabagopal Mitra (of the Hindu Mela) were not associated with it. the Bengalee was started in 1862 by Girish Chandra Ghosh and taken over by Surendranath Banerjea in 1879.

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