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Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British India, who founded the party Indian National Congress.
Jun 2, 2024 · Allan Octavian Hume (born June 6, 1829, Montrose, Forfarshire, Scot.—died July 31, 1912, London, Eng.) was a British administrator in India, one of the leading spirits in the founding of the Indian National Congress. Hume was the son of the radical politician Joseph Hume.
Jun 6, 2019 · New Delhi: Almost 136 years ago, Allan Octavian Hume, a British civil servant working in India, wrote a provocative letter to the graduates of the University of Calcutta.
Allan Octavian Hume, who played a seminal role in the foundation of the INC, was a member of the Indian Civil Service, a political reformer, a botanist, and a notable ornithologist. Apart from his illustrious career in civil services in British India, Hume was also one of the pioneers of birding in India. He is also called the “Father of ...
Allan O. Hume was a member of Indian Civil Service and served on top administrative positions in India from 1849 to 1882. He wished to relieve the Indian masses from poverty, misery and
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a member of the Imperial Civil Service (later the Indian Civil Service), a political reformer, collector of Madurai & administrator southern Bombay harbour ports. He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress.
A. O. Hume was born in St Mary Cray, Kent, now a part of Greater London. He was the grandson of an East India Company director, and the seventh child of the radical Benthamite politician Joseph Hume — a Scotsman who had served as a doctor and intelligence officer in India.
Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) Type specimen of large-billed reed warbler, Acrocephalus orinus, collected by Hume in 1867 and only rediscovered in the wild in Thailand in 2006. The largest single collection of birds ever received by the Museum was given by Allan Octavian Hume in 1885.
Mar 26, 2010 · Allan Octavian Hume: Father of the Indian National Congress, 1829–1912: A Biography. By Sir William Wedderburn. Edited by Edward C. Moulton. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002. cii, 165 pp. Rs 445 (paper). | The Journal of Asian Studies | Cambridge Core.
This is a critical rendition of the well-known memoir of Allan Octavian Hume, written by William Wedderburn, a close pro-India compatriot of Hume. The new introduction by Edward Moulton, an...
