Political associations before 1885
Whole chapter · 8–12 focused hours
Early nationalism and the Congress
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Economic-drain theory and press-law detail are studied under Company administration; later Congress splits are assigned to their periods.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Unifying administration, railways and press, western education, economic exploitation, racial arrogance, Lytton's measures
- Bengal associations
- Bombay and madras associations
- Naoroji's East India Association 1866 in London and the London Indian Society
- Reduction of ICS age to 19 in 1876, Surendranath Banerjea's campaign and the first all-India political agitation
Where to study this topic
- India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947 (Bipan Chandra and others), OCR text of the Digital Library of India scan, Internet Archive item in.ernet.dli.2015.130998 ↗
ch. 5 Foundation of the Indian National Congress: The Reality, pp. 71-81
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Revolutionary Nationalism
- History Syllabus (Drishti IAS, Delhi branch) ↗
Paper 2, item 8
- Tamil Nadu State Board Class XII History, chapter index (new syllabus) ↗
ch. 1 Rise of Nationalism in India
- Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 6, chapters 1–3; Appendix 1 for named Congress sessions and presidents.
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
The emergence of nationalism and early Congress demands, ending before the Swadeshi phase
- National Movement and Indian Democracy ↗
Section 21.1, early Congress politics
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 4–5 and 9, Congress origins and legislative action; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 6, chapters 1–3; appendix 1 for selected sessions only; study only material not covered by the selected school-text passages.
Book required