Books, Journals and Newspapers
Authors, books and newspapers are frequent "match the following" questions in State and UPSC exams.
Books
| Book | Author |
|---|---|
| Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (1901) | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Economic History of India (1901 to 1903) | R.C. Dutt |
| Essays on Indian Economics | M.G. Ranade |
| "Prosperous" British India (1901) | William Digby |
| Satyarth Prakash (1875) | Dayanand Saraswati |
| Gita Rahasya; The Arctic Home in the Vedas | B.G. Tilak |
| Anandamath (1882) | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay |
| Nil Darpan (1860) | Dinabandhu Mitra |
| Gulamgiri (1873) | Jyotirao Phule |
| Hind Swaraj (1909) | M.K. Gandhi |
| The Indian War of Independence (1909) | V.D. Savarkar |
| Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| India Today (1940) | R.P. Dutt |
| The Discovery of India (1946); Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| India Wins Freedom | Maulana Azad |
| The Indian Struggle | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Annihilation of Caste (1936) | B.R. Ambedkar |
| Asbab-e-Baghawat-e-Hind (1859) | Sir Syed Ahmad Khan |
| Sultana's Dream (1905) | Begum Rokeya |
| The High Caste Hindu Woman (1887) | Pandita Ramabai |
| Why I am an Atheist (1930) | Bhagat Singh |
| History of British India (1817) | James Mill |
Newspapers and journals
| Paper | Founder / editor |
|---|---|
| Hicky's Bengal Gazette (1780) | James Augustus Hicky |
| Sambad Kaumudi (1821); Mirat-ul-Akhbar (1822) | Ram Mohan Roy |
| Bombay Samachar (1822) | Fardunji Marzban |
| Rast Goftar (1851) | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Hindu Patriot | Harish Chandra Mukherjee (editor) |
| Amrita Bazar Patrika (1868) | Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Motilal Ghosh |
| The Hindu (1878) | G. Subramania Iyer and others |
| Kesari (Marathi) and Mahratta (English) (1881) | B.G. Tilak, Agarkar |
| The Tribune (1881) | Dyal Singh Majithia |
| Bengalee | Surendranath Banerjea |
| Indian Mirror | Debendranath Tagore, N.N. Sen |
| Indian Opinion (1903, South Africa) | M.K. Gandhi |
| Yugantar (1906), Bande Mataram | Barindra Ghosh; Aurobindo, B.C. Pal |
| Al-Hilal (1912) | Maulana Azad |
| Comrade (1911); Hamdard (1913) | Mohammad Ali |
| Pratap (1913) | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi |
| Ghadar (1913) | Ghadar Party |
| New India | Annie Besant |
| Bombay Chronicle (1910) | Pherozeshah Mehta (editor B.G. Horniman) |
| Young India (1919), Navjivan (1919), Harijan (1933) | M.K. Gandhi |
| Mooknayak (1920), Bahishkrit Bharat (1927) | B.R. Ambedkar |
| National Herald (1938) | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Keep practising
Notes are only half the work. Test yourself with questions and discuss doubts with other aspirants.
Prepared for exam revision from standard sources such as NCERT, Bipan Chandra, Spectrum and official records. Historians differ on some dates, figures and interpretations, so check your exam syllabus and a standard textbook. Found a mistake? Tell us.