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The Indian National Congress was established when 72 representatives from all over the country met at Bombay in 1885. Prominent delegates included Dadabhai Naoroji, Surendranath Banerjee, Badruddin Tyabji, Pherozeshah Mehta, W. C. Banerjee, S. Ramaswami Mudaliar, [ 1] S. Subramania Iyer, and Romesh Chunder Dutt.
The Indian National Congress ( INC ), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. [ b][ 30] From the late 19th century, and especially ...
← 1884 1883 1882 1885 in India → 1886 1887 1888 Centuries: 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s See also: List of years in India Timeline of Indian history Events in the year 1885 in India. Incumbents Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin Events National income - ₹ 3,991 million 24 June – Lord Randolph Churchill becomes ...
Emergence of the Indian National Congress (1971, republished in 2004) The Commonwealth and the Nation (1978) Towards India’s Freedom and Partition (1979) A History of the Indian National Congress: Volume One, 1885-1918 (1995) M. K. Gandhi's Hind Swaraj: A Critical Edition (2010) The Mahatma and the Doctor (2014)
Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee (or Umesh Chandra Banerjee (29 December 1844 – 21 July 1906) was an Indian Independence activist, and barrister who practiced in England. He was a secretary of the London Indian society founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1865. He was a co-founder and the first president of Indian National Congress in 1885 at Bombay ...
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 [ 1] – 31 July 1912 [ 2]) 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. [ 3] A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian ...
Rangaiah Naidu also participated in the first session of the Indian National Congress held in Bombay in December 1885 representing Madras city. He was one of the trustees for Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai from 1883 to 1902. Rangaiah Naidu was elected to the Madras Legislative Council in 1893 and served as a member from 1893 to 1899.
The creation in 1885 of the Indian National Congress in India by the political reformer A.O. Hume intensified the process by providing an important platform from which demands could be made for political liberalisation, increased autonomy, and social reform. [16]