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The Indian National Congress was formed on December 28, 1885, by British civil servant Allan Octavian Hume. He is known as the father and founder of the INC. Hume invited eminent Indians from different parts of the country to meet at Poona from 25th to 28th December 1885 which led to the formation of INC.
Since his retirement (from ICS in 1882) Hume had been publicly urging Indians to take politics. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary to INC IN 1885. Was this answer helpful? 0. 0. Click here👆to get an answer to your question ️ The founder of the Indian National Congress was:
Consider the following statements: "No Indian could have started the Indian National Congress, if the founder of the Congress had not been a great Englishman and a distinguished ex-official, such was the distrust of political agitation in those days that the authority would have at once found some way or the other suppress the movement".
Mahatma Gandhi. Allan Octavian Hume, a retired civil servant in the British Government took the initiative to form an all-India organization. Thus, the Indian National Congress was founded and its first session was held at Bombay in 1885. Was this answer helpful?
Sir William Wedderburn along with Allan Octavian Hume was a founder of the Indian National Congress and served as its president in 1889 and 1910. During his service in India, Wedderburn's attention was focussed on famine, the poverty of the Indian peasantry, the problem of agricultural indebtedness, etc.
The founder of Indian National Congress Allan Octavian Hume, was not a retired British professor in India. Allan Octavian Hume, (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British member of the Imperial Civil Service (later the Indian Civil Service), a political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India.
Mahatma Gandhi. Allan Octavian Hume, a retired civil servant in the British Government took the initiative to form an all-India organization. Thus, the Indian National Congress was founded and its first session was held at Bombay in 1885. Was this answer helpful?
1889. The oldest party in India is the Congress party which was founded by the efforts of Englishmen A.O. Hume in 1885. At that time it was the only party in India which had native as members. The Indian National Congress played a role in bringing upfront politics with Britishers. It won the Provincial elections held in 1937 in British India.
Allan Octavian Hume, a retired civil servant in the British Government took the initiative to form an all-India organization. Thus, the Indian National Congress was founded and its first session was held at Bombay in 1885. W.C. Banerjee was its first president. It was attended by 72 delegates from all over India.
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