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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 and founded the party Indian National Congress.He supported the idea of self-governance by Indians. A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian Ornithology".
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. “If you, the picked men, the most highly educated of the nation, cannot, scorning personal ease and selfish objects, make a resolute struggle to secure greater freedom for yourselves and your country, a more impartial administration, a larger share in the management of your own affairs, then we, your friends, are wrong ...
Allan Octavian Hume. Retired British Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer Allan Octavian Hume founded the Indian National Congress in order to form a platform for civil and political dialogue among educated Indians. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, control of India was transferred from the East India Company to the British Empire.British-controlled India, known as the British Raj, or just the Raj, worked to try to support and justify its governance of India with the aid of English-educated ...
Jun 2, 2024 · Allan Octavian Hume 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. He entered the Indian civil service in Bengal in 1849. After serving as magistrate in the district of Etawah
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 notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian ornithology".
One of the defining moments of the Indian Independence Movement was the foundation of the Indian National Congress (INC). 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.
A.O. Hume: His Life and Contribution to the Regeneration of India 247 commemorative stamp of A. O. Hume. Hume took keen interest in Indian philosophy, customs, agriculture and other
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. Naturally, in view of the Bentham connection, the boy was sent to University College School, moving on from there to the East India College, Haileybury.After two years young Hume returned to University College London ...
The largest single collection of birds ever received by the Museum was given by Allan Octavian Hume in 1885. The collection contains more than 60,000 bird skins and nearly 20,000 eggs from the Indian sub-continent. The largest single collection of birds ever received by the Museum was the over ...
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British India and founded the party Indian National Congress. He supported the idea of self-governance by Indians. A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian Ornithology".
