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INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS C SS R A RM PA Associations formed before Congress Bangabhasha Prakashika Sabha 1836: by Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s Associates East India Association 1866: by Dadabhai Naoroji...

INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS C SS R A RM PA Associations formed before Congress Bangabhasha Prakashika Sabha 1836: by Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s Associates East India Association 1866: by Dadabhai Naoroji C Poona Sarvajanik Sabha 1st Indian to qualify ICS: Satyendranath Tagore SS 1870: M G Ranade Indian League 1875: by Sisir Kumar Ghosh Indian National Association R 1876: by Surendranath Banerjee, Anand Mohan Bose A Bombay Presidency Association 1885: by Pherozeshah Mehta, K. T Telang, and Badruddin Tyabji RM Madras Mahajan Sabha: 1884 Dadabhai Naoroji 1st British Indian Member of Parliament 1st to calculate National Income and Poverty Line (1st by him) PA Rast Goftar (weekly newspaper) For Parsi Community Book: “Poverty and UnBritish Rule in India” Gives Drain Theory Used the term “Swaraj” for the 1st time Also known as “Grand Old Man of India” 3 times Congress President (1886, 1893, 1906)  Formation of Congress Founder: Ornithologist Allen Octavian Hume (qualified ICS, Father of Indian Ornithology) > - in 1885 ~ 1885: Poona (not possible due to plague) I 1st session held at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College, Bombay - > 72 delegates attended this / No women participated G C 1st session By Ilbert > - Ilbert Bill: 1884, by Ripon SS - A measure that allow senior Indian magistrates to preside over cases involving British Subjects in India > - But this received a huge backlash Different Theories - / - Conspiracy Theory: R. P. Dutt R Saftey Valve Theory: By Lala Lajpat Rai (Young India) Lightning Conductor Theory: Gopal Krishna Gokhale A - Viceroy at the time of formation of Congress > Dufferin called Congress a Factory of - Sedition RM Important Sessions of Congress - D8 1st: 1855 W. C Banerjee, Bombay > 72 delegates attended - 2nd: 1886 > - Dadabhai Naoroji, Calcutta > - 434 delegates attended PA 3rd: 1887 >Badruddin Tyabji, Madras - > 1st Muslim President of Congress / - 4th: 1888- > George Yule, Allahabad > 1st British President of Congress - 1896: in Calcutta I National Song (Vande Mataram) was sung for the 1st time by Tagore ↳ Written by: Bankim Chatterjee 1901: in Calcutta 1st time Gandhi appeared 1905: in Banaras Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1906: in Calcutta C Dadabhai Naoroji 4 resolutions: Swaraj, Swadeshi, Boycott, and National Education SS 1907: in Surat R. B Ghosh Congress split during this time 1911: in Calcutta R 1st time National Anthem (Jana Gana Mana) Sung Written by Rabindranath Tagore A 1916: in Lucknow Ambika Charan Mazumdar Merger of Congress RM 1917: in Calcutta Annie Besant 1st Women president of Congress 1924: in Belgaum (Karnataka) Mahatma Gandhi (president) PA 1925: in Kanpur Sarojini Naidu 1st Indian women 1929: in Lahore J. L Nehru (President of INC) Madan Mohan Malviya Most no. of times President 1931: in Karachi Sardar Patel  1937: Faizpur J. L Nehru > - 1st session held in village ! Governor Generals William Bentinck (1828-1835) 1st Governor General of India 1829: Abolition of Sati C Suppression of Thug Abolished Circuit Courts SS Metcafe (1835-36) He is known as liberator of Indian Press Dalhousie (1848-1856) During his time Doctrine of Lapse (1849)r8 R 1st railway line (1853) From Bombay to Thane Widow Remarriage Act (1856) A Postal Act, Telegraph lines spread across Wood’s Dispatch RM Mayo (1869-1872) ↑ 1st Census held at his time (1872) Not complete, synchronised Census Lytton (1876-1880) PA ↑ Arms Act (1878) - Brought Vernacular Press Act (1878) To ban local newspapers - 1st newspaper “Bengal Gazette” by: James Augustus Hickey Famous Newspapers: ↑ Prabuddha Bharata: by Swami Vivekananda ↑ Al-Hilal: by Abul Kalam Azad - Mook Nayak: by B. R Ambedkar  Ripon (1880-1884) - Ilbert Bill Controversy Y He repealed Vernacular Press Act / 1st synchronised/complete Census held 1881 & - - Father of Local Self Government Hunter Commission (1882) Related to Education Factory Act (1881) / C One Liners (MCQs) SS 1st to qualify Indian Civil Services: Satyendranath Tagore : - In 1929, INC demanded Complete Independence under the Presidency of J. L Nehru at Lahore R Maulana Abul Kalam Azad presided over the special session of Congress in September 1923 and at the age of 35 A He also became the youngest man to be elected as the President of the Congress President of INC at the time of independence in 1947: J B Kriplani RM ↑ 1st President of All India Trade Union Congress: Lala Lajpat Rai President of the INC in year 1938 and 1939: Subash Chandra Bose “Purna Swaraj” was adopted by Congress Session in: Lahore Session PA I Indian National Association was established in 1876 by: Anand Mohan Bose in 1876