2017 · Q30
Who among the following is considered to be the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a journalist?
Indian Freedom StruggleGandhian movements
- AMahatma Gandhi
- BRabindranath Tagore
- CLokmanya Tilak
- DSurendranath Banerjee
Explanation
Surendranath Banerjee was sentenced to two months' imprisonment in 1883 for contempt of court after his newspaper The Bengalee criticised a judge, making him the first Indian jailed in the performance of journalistic duty. Tilak's sedition imprisonment came later (1897), Gandhi's first jail term was in South Africa (1908), and Tagore was never jailed. Hence D.