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Modern Indian History
Indian National Movement

 

Organization Founder Place Year
Landholder’s Society Zamandari Association Dwarakanath Tagore Kolkata 1837
Indian National Union A.O. Hume Kolkata 1883
Bengal British IndiaSociety George Thompson Kolkata 1843
British India Association Devendra Nath Tagore Kolkata 1851
Madras Native Association   Chennai 1852
Bombay Associaiton Jaganath Shankershet Mumbai 1852
East India Asociation Dada Bhai Nauroji London 1866
Poona Sarvajanik Sabha M.G. Rande, G.V.Joshi Poona 1870
Indian Association S.N. Benerjee, A. M. Bose Kolkata 1876
MadrasMahajan Sabha M. Viraraghavachari, G. Subrahamya
Iyer, Anada Charlu		 Chennai 1884
Bombay President Association PherozshanMehta, K.T. Telang,
Badruddin Ayabji		 Mumbai 1885
Indian Society Anand Mohan Bose London 1872
British India Society Willian adam Kolkata 1839
London Indian Society Badruddin Tyabji, W.C.
Banerjee, Pherozshah Mehta		 London 1865
National Indian Association Mary Carpenter London 1867
Decan Associaiton     1852
National Representative Committee   Londo 1883

 

Facts about congress

  1. Foundation in 1885
  2. The significance of A.O. Hume’s involvement was to remove official hostility.
  3. The first Session at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Mumbai.
  4. The first president was Womesh Chandra Bannerjee of Bengal.
  5. It was attended by 100 men of whom 72 were non-officials and were recongnised as members.
  6. The foundermembers were PherozshahMehta, Badruddin Tayabji, W.C. Banerjee, RomeshChandra Dutt Dada Bhai Naroji etc.
  7. Initially it was named Indian National Union.
  8. The name Indian National Congress was onthe suggestion of Dadabhai Nauroji.
  9. Earlier Poona was selected for the venue, but it had to be shifted to Mumbai because of the outbreak of Cholera in Poona.
  10. The Governor-General of India at the time of its foundaiton was Lord Dufferin.
  11. Among the classes, the educated middle class had the largest share in the beginning.
  12. The legal profession was most heavilyrepresented among the professions.
  13. The Brahmins among the castes were comparatively large in number.
  14. Among the provinces, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai took the leading part.
  15. Landed classes and the masses were absent.
  16. Foundation of “British Committee of the Congress” in 1889 by Dada Bhai Nauroji, A.O. Hume and William Wedderburn to influence British Public opinion at London.
  17. Dada Bhai started the journal ‘India’ in 1890.
Year Venue President Remark
1885 Mumbai W.C.Bannerjee 72delegates
1886 Kolkata Dadabhai Naroji 436delegates
1887 Chennai Badruddin Tyabji First Muslim President
1888 Allahabad George Yule First English President
1889 Mumbai Sir William Wedderbum 1889 delegates
1892 Allahabad W.C. Nannjerjee  
1895 Poona Surendranath Bannerji  
1905 Lahore G.K. Gokhale  
1906 Kolkata Dadabhai Naroji  
1907 Surat Rahbehari Ghosh Gongress split and
session broke up
1908 Chennai Rashbehari Ghosh A constitution for the
Congress
1915 Mumbai Sir S.P. Sinha  
1916 Lucknow A.C.Majumdar Congress Merger and
Pact withMuslimLeague
1917 Kolkata Mrs. Annie Besant First Woman president
1920 Nagpur C. Vijaya Raghavachariyar Change the constitution
the Congress
1922 Gaya C.R. Das Formation of Swaraj
Party
1924 Begaon Mahatma Gandhi First Indian President
1925 Cawnpore Mrs. Sarojini Naidu  
1927 Chennai M.A. Ansari Independence Resolution Passed for
the first time on the instance of J.L. Nehru
1928 Kolkata Motilal Nehru First All India Youth Gongress
1929 Lahore Jawaharlal Nehru Poona Swaraj Resolution
1931 Karachi Vallabhbhai Patel Resolution on Fundamental Rights and
National Economic Policy
1934 Mumbai Rajendra Prasad Formation of Congress
Socialist party
1936 Lucknow Jawaharlal Nehru  
1937 Faizpur Jawaharlal Nehru First session to be held
in a village
1938 Haripura Subhash Chandra
Bose		  
1939 Tripuri Subhash Chandra Bose Resignation of S.C. Bose (Rajendra Prasad took
ov er) and formation of powerd Block
1946 Meerut Jawahar Lal Nehru  
1947   J.B. Kriplani  

  1. State of Bengal comprising Bengal proper, Assam, Bihar and Orissa with capital at Kolkata.

  2. Sepration of Assamand creation of a new state with Assam and Sylhet in 1874.

  3. Partition ofBengal in 1905 by Lord Cruzon-two separate states were created.

    • Bengal comprising Western part of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa with capital of Kolkata.

    • East Bengal and Assamwith capital at Dacca comprising the Chitagon,Dacca and Rajshahi division, Hill Tippera (Tripura), Malda and Assam.

  4. Annulment of the partition of Bengal in 1911- intergration of West and East Bengal and creation of three separate states.

    • Bengal Comprising West and East Bengal.

    • Assam

    • Bihar and Orissa

  5. Separation of Bihar and Orissa in 1935.

Partition of Bengal and Swadesh Movement

  1. Though publicly known since 1903, this was announced on July 19, 1905.

  2. Motive of partition was totally political as as in clearl from what H.R. Risley, the then Home Secretary, wrote-”Bengal united iis a power, Bengal divided will pull in several different ways”.

  3. Call for Swadeshi Movement against partition was made orr August 7, 1905 in ameeting held at Kolkata Town Hall where boycott resolution was passed.

  4. Partition of Bengal was effected in October 16, 1905.

  5. The Congress supported the boycott movement only for Bengal at its Bearas session (1905) which was presided byG.K. Gokhle. Extremists in the Congress wanted it to be extended to other parts also.

  6. In 1906 sessional Kolkata, Dadabhai Naaoroji decleared the aimof the Congress “Swaraj like that of U.K. or Colonies”. Four compromise resolution was also passed at this session—

    • Swadeshi
    • Boycott
    • National Education and
    • Self-Government.
  7. Tilak gave a call “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”
  8. Important quotes about Swadeshi.
    • Tilak— “Swaraj or self-government is essential for theexercise of Swadharma. Without Swaraj there could be no social reform, no industrial progess, no useful education, no fulfillment of national life.
    • B.C. Pal—“It is not reformbut re-form, which is the new city in the country”.
    • Aurobindo Ghose—“Swaraj is the fulfillment of the ancient life of India under modern conditions. The return of Satyuga of national greatness” Political freedom is the flife breath of national life.
    • Lala Lajpat Rai— “A man without souls is a mere animal. A nation without a soul is only a dumb driven cattle.
  9. Indigenous organizations is various fields developed to sustain swadeshi call.
    • Bengal National College was established.
    • Bengal Council of National Education headedby Guroodas Banerjee.
    • Panchaiapa National College-Chennai.
    • Bengal Chemical Factory established by Acharya P.C. Ray.
  10. Tagore wrote “Amar Sonar Bangla”
  11. To mark the Hindu-Muslim unity Raksha Bandhan was celebrated on the day of Partition.
  12. Nanda Lal Bose became the first receipt of scholarship of effered by Indian Society of Oriental Art, set up in 19007.
  13. Surat split in 1907. The moderates dominated the session and the extremists were ousted. Leader of Moderates was Firoz Shah Mehta. President of this session was Ras Behari Bose.

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