Q:- Who was the founder of Indian National Congress?
-> Sir Allan Octavian Hume...
A. O. Hume was a civil servant in British India. He is called the “father of Indian Ornithology” (branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds). In 1849 he sailed to India and the following year joined the Bengal Civil Service at Etawah in the North-Western Provinces (now called Uttar Pradesh).
Hume retired from the civil service in 1882. In 1883 he wrote an open letter to the graduates of Calcutta University, calling upon them to form their own national political movement. Thus Congress was created to form a platform for civic and political dialogue of educated Indians with the British Raj.
In May 1885, Hume secured the Viceroy's approval to create an "Indian National Union", which would be affiliated with the government and act as a platform to voice Indian public opinion. On 28 December 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chandra Banerjee of Calcutta was elected President. Besides Hume, two additional British members (both Scottish civil servants) were members of the founding group. The other members were mostly Hindus from the Bombay and Madras Presidencies. The congress was initially a educated and wealthy people’s institution.
The ordinary people of India were not informed or concerned of its existence on the whole, for the Congress never attempted to address the issues of poverty, lack of health care, social oppression and the prejudiced negligence of the people's concerns by British authorities.
Later the demands of INC became more radical in the face of constant opposition from the government, and the party became very active in the independence movement. Before the Gandhi Era came leaders like Bal Gan
gadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mohammed Ali Jinnah all starting with the first legendary icon of Indians: Dadabhai Naoroji, the president of the National Association and later Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, the first Indian to win a seat there.
By 1907 the party was split into two halves: the Garam Dal of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, or Extremists, and the Naram Dal of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, or Moderates, distinguished by their attitude towards the British.
Mahatma Gandhi's success in defeating the British in Champaran and Kheda gave India its first victory in the struggle for freedom. Indians gained confidence that the Britishers could be let down, and millions of young people from across the country flooded into Congress membership.
-> Sir Allan Octavian Hume...
A. O. Hume was a civil servant in British India. He is called the “father of Indian Ornithology” (branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds). In 1849 he sailed to India and the following year joined the Bengal Civil Service at Etawah in the North-Western Provinces (now called Uttar Pradesh).
Hume retired from the civil service in 1882. In 1883 he wrote an open letter to the graduates of Calcutta University, calling upon them to form their own national political movement. Thus Congress was created to form a platform for civic and political dialogue of educated Indians with the British Raj.
In May 1885, Hume secured the Viceroy's approval to create an "Indian National Union", which would be affiliated with the government and act as a platform to voice Indian public opinion. On 28 December 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chandra Banerjee of Calcutta was elected President. Besides Hume, two additional British members (both Scottish civil servants) were members of the founding group. The other members were mostly Hindus from the Bombay and Madras Presidencies. The congress was initially a educated and wealthy people’s institution.
The ordinary people of India were not informed or concerned of its existence on the whole, for the Congress never attempted to address the issues of poverty, lack of health care, social oppression and the prejudiced negligence of the people's concerns by British authorities.
Later the demands of INC became more radical in the face of constant opposition from the government, and the party became very active in the independence movement. Before the Gandhi Era came leaders like Bal Gan
gadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mohammed Ali Jinnah all starting with the first legendary icon of Indians: Dadabhai Naoroji, the president of the National Association and later Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, the first Indian to win a seat there.By 1907 the party was split into two halves: the Garam Dal of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, or Extremists, and the Naram Dal of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, or Moderates, distinguished by their attitude towards the British.
Mahatma Gandhi's success in defeating the British in Champaran and Kheda gave India its first victory in the struggle for freedom. Indians gained confidence that the Britishers could be let down, and millions of young people from across the country flooded into Congress membership.
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