Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?
- Al-Hilal
- Comrade
- The Indian Sociologist
- Zamindar
Explanation
Option (a) is correct
- Al-Hilal was an Urdu weekly newspaper established by Abul Kalam Azad in 1912 to propagate his radical anti-British views and forge Hindu-Muslim unity. Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar started Comrade in 1911 as an English-language newspaper. Shyamji Krishna Varma started The Indian Sociologist in 1905 as an English-language journal to promote Indian nationalism and criticise British rule in India. Zamindar was a prominent Urdu-language newspaper founded in January 1903 as a weekly in Lahore by Maulvi Sirajuddin Ahmed, initially focusing on issues affecting farmers and landowners, and was relaunched as a daily in 1911 under the editorship of his son, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan.
