INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Mean of congress

•          Group of people
•         Term “congress” borrowed from USA
•         Term ‘congress’ given by Dada Bhai Naoroji

Establishment

•          28 Dec 1885
•          Place: Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit Mahavidayala
•          Gwalia tank, Bombay
•          Founder: A.O.Hume
•          1^st chairman: W. C. Banerji
•          72 members – In 1^st meeting
•          Lord Dufferin (G.G)

Logic behind establishment of congress 

•   Lala Lajpat Rai:- Britishers have established INC to protect British India from disintegration
•  William Wedderburn: Safety value theory
•   Rajni Palme Dutt: Congress was established by Britisher with widening strategy.  

                                                  IMPORTANT SESSION OF INC

First session/Summit – 1885

·         Bombay

·         W. C. Bannerji

 2^nd Summit, 1886

•          Calcutta
•          D. B. Naoroji

 3^rd Summit, 1887

•          Madras
•          Badruddin Taiyab [1^st Muslim chairman]

 4^th Summit, 1888

•          Allahabad
•          George Yule (1^st English chairman)

 5^th Summit, 1889

•       Bombay
•       William Wedderburn
•       First-time women participated in this summit.

Note: William Wedderburn was the chairman of congress session – Two times

(1889 → Bombay, 1910 → Allahabad)

 6^th Summit, 1890

•          Calcutta
•       Firojshah Mehta
•        Kadimbini Ganguly – First time, any women give a speech on the stage.

 12^th Session, 1896

•         Calcutta
•       Rahimtulla Sayani

Mean of congress

•       Group of people
•      Term “congress” borrowed from USA
•      Term ‘congress’ given by Dada Bhai Naoroji

 Establishment

•      28 Dec 1885
•      Place: Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit Mahavidayala
•      Gwalia tank, Bombay
•      Founder: A.O.Hume
•      1^st chairman: W. C. Banerji
•      72 members – In 1^st meeting
•      Lord Dufferin (G.G)

 IMPORTANT SESSION OF INC 

22^nd Session, 1906

•         Calcutta
•          Dada Bhai Naroji
•        Congress declared his Aim “Swaraj”

 23^rd Summit, 1907

•          Surat
•          Ras Bihari Ghosh
•          Congress split into two parts. (i) Moderate (ii) Extremist

 26^th Summit, 1911

•          Calcutta
•          Visan Narayan
•         On congress stage, first time Jan Gan Man was sung.

 31^st Summit, 1916

•          Lucknow
•          Ambika charan Muzumdar
•          Lucknow part (i) Muslim League (ii) Congress
•         Narampanth + Garampanth

 32^nd Session, 1917

•         Calcutta
•         Annie Besant (1^st Lady)

 35^th Session, 1920

•          Nagpur
•          Veer Raghavachan
•          Resolution of non-cooperation movement passed in this session

 (i) 38^th Session

•          Kakinada (A. P.), Maulana Mohamad Ali;

(ii) Special Session

•          Delhi, Abul Kalam Azad → He was the youngest leader of (35 yrs.)

 39^th session, 1924

•          Belgaum (Karnataka)
•          M. K. Gandhi (1^st and last time chairman of congress)

 40^th Session, 1925

•          Kanpur
•          Sarojini Naidu (1^st Indian lady)

 44^th Session, 1929

•          Lahore
•          J. L. Nehru
•          ‘Absolute freedom’ – Congress declared their aim of ‘Absolute freedom’.

 45^th Session, 1931

•        Karachi
•         Sardar Patel
•         First time, demand of fundamental rights were made 

 50^th Session, 1937

•          Faizpur (W.B.)
•          J. L. Nehru
•          First time any session held in a village

 51^st Session, 1938

•          Haripura (GJ)
•          Subhash chandra Bose

 52^nd Session, 1939

•          Tripuri (M.P.)
•          S. C. Bose (He defeated pattabhi sitaramaiya who was supported by Gandhiji)
•          National planning committee was constituted under the chairmanship of J. L. Nehru.

 53^rd Session, 1940

•          Ramgarh
•          Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
•         1940 – 45 (He was the chairman)
•        Longest tenure of Inc chairman – Sonia Gandhi]

 54^th session, 1940

•          Meerut
•          J. B. Kriplani (He was the chairman at the time of Independence of India)

 60^th Session, 1955

•         Awari (Madras)
•        Congress declare their aim “Democratic Socialism”.

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