Vijayarekha November 2017

1 st November 2017
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INDIAN NATIONAL
CONGRESS (INC)
I.N.C. was founded on
28 th December 1885
I.N.C. was founded by A.O. Hume,
a retired Civil Servant.
The first session of INC was held at
Gokul Das Tejpal Sanskrit
College (Bombay)
The place at which the first meeting
of INC was decided to be conducted
Pune
Safety Valve theory was related to
the formation of
INC
The organisation that existed
before the formation of INC
Indian National Union
Number of leaders participated at the
first meeting of INC
72
The first resolution of INC was
presented by
G. Subhramanya Iyer
The second session of INC was
held at Calcutta.
The second session of congress
was held under the leadership of
Dadabhai Naoroji.
Members participated in the 2nd
session of INC
434
The Grand
old man
The name ‘Congress’ was
suggested by Dadabhai Naoroji.
The father of Indian Economics
and Indian Politics
Dadabhai Naoroji
‘Brain Drain Theory’ and ‘Drain
Wealth Theory’ was propounded
by
Dadabhai Naoroji
He was the author of famous book
‘Poverty and Un - British Rule in
India’.
The word ‘Swaraj’ was first used
in the congress session held at
Culcutta in 1906 by Dadabhai
Naoroji.
‘The Grand old man’ of India
Dadabhai Naoroji
The first Secretary of I.N.C.
The first person who demanded a
constitution for congress
Aananda Mohan Bose
. The session at which congress
formed a constitution for the first
time
- A.O. Hume
The first President of I.N.C.
- W.C Banerjee
Madras Session (1908)
Moderates &
Extremists
A group of congress men who
dominated the affairs of congress
and were controlled by liberal
leaders known as Moderates.
The moderates were led by
- Gopalakrishna Gokhale
The three “P” methods of
moderates was - Prayer, Petition
and Protest
Dadabhai Naoroji, Feroz Shah
Mehta, Badaruddin Tiabji, W.C.
Banerjee, Gopalakrishna Gokhale
were the leaders of Moderates.
The radical wing of the I.N.C. that
emerged at the end of the 19 th
century was otherwise known as
‘extremists group’.
The extremists were led by
Bal Gangadhra Tilak
Lala Lajpath Rai, Bal Gangadhara
Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal,
Aurobindo Ghosh etc, were the
main leaders of extremist group.
The session at which congress
was divided into two groups as
Moderates and Extremists
Surat Session (1907)
Moderates and Extremists
reunited in
Lucknow session (1916)
Three phases of INC
Phase of Moderates
- 1885 - 1905
Phase of Extremists
Gandhian Era
- 1905 -1917
- 1917- 1948
The president of the Madras
Session of INC in 1908
Rash Bihari Ghosh
The British Committee of I.N.C.
founded in the year 1889.
The journal started by the British
Committee of I.N.C was
India
The first South-Indian state to host
a INC Session
Chennai (1887)
The joint session of I.N.C. and
Muslim League was held at
Lucknow in 1916.
Delhi hosted the INC Session for
the first time in
1918
The session in which Hindi was
declared as the official language of
INC
Kanpur Session (1925)
The INC session in which ‘Poorna
Swaraj Resolution’ was passed
Lahore Session (1929)
The first Parsi President of INC
Dadabhai Naoroji (1886)
The first Non-Hindu President of
INC
Dadabhai Naoroji
The first person who became the
INC president thrice
Dadabhai Naoroji
The first Muslim President of
I.N.C
Badarudeen Tiabji (1887)
The first foreign President of INC
George Yule (1888)
The first elected President of INC
Subhash Chandra Bose (1939,
Tripuri)
The first woman President of
I.N.C.
Annie Besant (1917, Calcutta).
The first Indian woman president
of INC
Sarojini Naidu (1925, Kanpur)
The INC President at the time of
Quit India Movement
Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
The longest serving President of
INC before independence
Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
The longest serving President of
INC after independence
Sonia Gandhi
Info Plus
East India Association was started
by
Dadabhai Naoroji (1866)
Indian Association was started by
Surendranath Banerjee
(1876)
Indian National Conference
convened by
Surendranath Banerjee
(1883, Kolkata)
United India Patriotic Association
which was organised against the
formation of Congress was started
by
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (1888)
Tri - colour flag was hoisted for the
first in in
Lahore Session (1929)
The INC session that adopted a
resolution establish a socialist
pattern of society
Awadhi Session (1955)
Presidents of INC
The first woman president of INC
after independence.
Indira Gandhi
The first INC President who
served for the two consecutive
terms
Rash Bihari Ghosh
(1907, 1908).
The first foreigner to became the
President of INC twice
Sir William Wedder
(1889, 1910).
The first person to became the
INC President twice
W.C. Banerjee (1885, 1892).
The first south Indian, who
became the INC president
P. Ananda Charlu (1891)
The youngest person who
became president of INC
Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad
The oldest person who became
the president of INC
Dadabhai Naoroji
The first INC president of
independent India
Pattabhi Sita Ramaih
The President of INC at the time
of Indian independence
J.B. Kripalani
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