Complex sentence: It found support among Afghan intellectuals, religious leaders and the Afghan press which rallied with increasingly anti-British and pro-Central articles and by 1916 forced the Raj to intercept copies of the Afghan news paper "Siraj al Akhbar" sent to India.
Split into simpler sentences: It found support among Afghan intellectuals, religious leaders and the Afghan press which rallied with increasingly anti-British and pro-Central articles. BY 1916 the Raj was forced to intercept copies of the Afghan newspaper "Siraj al Akhbar" sent to India.