Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is/are correct? I. Mahratta was a Marathi paper edited by Bal Gangadhar Tilak II. Tilak was sent to 6 years imprisonment to Mandalay in Burma for publishing the poem 'Sivaji's Utterances' in Kesari and of a speech justifying Afzal Khan's murder by Sivaji which the prosecution said was an incitement to kill British officials.

  1. I alone is correct

  2. II alone is correct

  3. I and II are correct

  4. I and II are wrong

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Mahratta is an English paper and not a Marathi paper edited by Tilak. Kesari was the Marathi paper edited by Tilak. Tilak was sentenced to 18 months rigorous imprisonment and not 6 years to Mandalay. Tilak was given the 6 year sentence to Mandalay in 1908 for seditious writings under the Newspaper ( incitement to Offences Act 1908). He was released in 1914,

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