Early presidents and firsts
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
- Badruddin Tyabji and the early Congress presidency
- Annie Besant as the first woman Congress president
- Sarojini Naidu as the first Indian woman Congress president
- George Yule and the Congress presidency
Where to study this topic
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Who did the Congress seek to speak for? (Source 1), p. 3 (printed 95)
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Fig. 13 caption, Sarojini Naidu, p. 14 (printed 106)
- History Syllabus (Drishti IAS, Delhi branch) ↗
Paper 2, item 8
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