According to a quick Reaxys search, this transformation has been published by Cai J. et al. in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 2015 , vol. 23, # 4 p. 657 - 667 over 4 steps (see Link)
1) Protection of NH2 with Acetylgroup
2) ortho-Nitration of A
3) deprotection of Acetylgroup
4) reduction of nitrogroup to aminogroup to yield 4-methylbenzene-1,2-diamine
First carry out acetylation of p-toluidine(Protection), then nitration followed by hydrolysis it mono amino , nitro product which you can reduced by Fe in HCl to get desired product.