28-12-2017, 04:44 PM
Indian National Congress
*I.N.C. was founded on 28th December 1885 at Gokul Das Tejpal Sanskrit College (Bombay)
*I.N.C. was founded by A.O. Hume, a retired Civil Servant (1884).
*Safety Valve theory was related to the formation of
Ans : INC
*Pattabhi Sita Ramayya is known as the official historian of Indian National Congress
*72 leaders were participated at the first meeting of INC
*The first Secretary of I.N.C.
Ans : A.O.Hume
*The first President of I.N.C.
Ans : W.C.Banerjee
*The second 'session of INC was held at Culcutta
*The second session of congress was held under the leadership of Dadabhai Naoroji.
*Members participated in the 2nd session of INC - 434
*The name ‘Congress’ was suggested by Dadabhai Naoroji.
*Dadabhai Naoroji is considered as ‘the Grand old man’ of India.
*He is the father of Indian Economics and Indian Politics.
*Dadabhai Naoroji was the chief propounder of ‘Brain Drain Theory’ and ‘Drain Wealth Theory’.
*He was the author of famous book ‘Poverty and Un - British Rule in India’.
*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 word ‘Swaraj’ was first used in the congress session held at Culcutta in 1906 by Dadabhai Naoroji.
*The joint session of I.N.C. and Muslim League was held at Lucknow in 19l6.
*The radical wing,of the I.N.C. that emerged at the end of the 19th century was otherwise known as ‘extremist group'.
*Indian Association Started by Surendranth Banerjee in 1876.
*Indian National Conference convened by Surendranath Banerjee in 1883 (Kolkata)
*Lala LajpathRai, Bal Gangadhara Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Aurobindo Ghosh etc,were the main leaders of extremist group.
*Dadabhai Naoroji, Feroz Shiah Mehta, Badaruddin Tiabji, W.C. Banerjee, Gopalakrishna Gokhale were the leaders of Moderates.
*The INC President at the time of Quit India Movement
Ans : Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
*The longest serving President of INC before independence
Ans : Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
Three Phases of INC
*Phase of Moderates - 1885 - 1905
*Phase of Extremists - 1905 - 1917
*Gandhian Era - 1917 - 1948
