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  2. Indian National Congress - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. History of the Indian National Congress - Wikipedia

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    The Congress stood firm on its fundamental promises and delivered a Constitution that abolished untouchability and discrimination based on caste, religion or gender. Primary education was made a right, and Congress governments made the zamindar system illegal, created minimum wages and authorized the right to strike and form labor unions.

  4. Allan Octavian Hume - Wikipedia

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    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 was the founding spirit and key founder of the Indian National Congress.

  5. Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia

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    Gandhi took leadership of the Congress in 1920 and began escalating demands until on 26 January 1930 the Indian National Congress declared the independence of India. The British did not recognise the declaration, but negotiations ensued, with the Congress taking a role in provincial government in the late 1930s.

  6. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    These resolutions were submitted to the Indian government and occasionally to the British Parliament, but the Congress's early gains were slight. "Despite its claim to represent all India, the Congress voiced the interests of urban elites; [54] the number of participants from other social and economic backgrounds remained negligible. [54]

  7. List of national presidents of the Indian National Congress

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    The national president of the Indian National Congress is the chief executive of the Indian National Congress (INC), one of the principal political parties in India. [1] Constitutionally, the president is elected by an electoral college composed of members drawn from the Pradesh Congress Committees and members of the All India Congress ...

  8. No, photo doesn't show migrants leaving NYC before Trump ...

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    The claim: Photo shows migrants leaving NYC for Canada ahead of Trump presidency. A Nov. 14 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes an image showing several people stepping off a bus ...

  9. Indian nationalism - Wikipedia

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    The masses participated in India's independence struggle for the first time, and the membership of the Congress grew over tens of millions by the 1930s. In addition, Gandhi's victories in the Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha in 1918–19, gave confidence to a rising younger generation of Indian nationalists that India could gain independence from ...