Early nationalism and the Congress
Foundation of the Congress and the Moderate phase 1885-1905
Practise 3 PYQsConcepts to cover
- A.O. Hume, Bombay session December 1885 with W.C. Bonnerjee presiding, safety-valve myth versus the reality of a national forum
- Constitutional agitation, petitions and resolutions, demands for council reform, Indianisation of services, separation of powers, reduced military spending
- Indian Councils Act 1892, economic critique, political education; narrow social base and faith in British justice
- Firsts among Congress presidents: first Muslim Badruddin Tyabji 1887, first woman Annie Besant 1917, first Indian woman Sarojini Naidu 1925, first Englishman George Yule 1888
- Lala Lajpat Rai: biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna, years in America, Servants of the People Society 1921, Central Legislative Assembly member
Where to study
India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857–1947 · Bipan Chandra and others
- ch. 4 Foundation of the Congress: The Myth, pp. 61-70
- ch. 5 Foundation of the Indian National Congress: The Reality, pp. 71-81
- ch. 9 Propaganda in the Legislatures, pp. 113-123
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 11 Indian National Congress: Foundation and the Moderate Phase
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, pp. 1-20 (printed 93-112)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The Emergence of Nationalism, p. 3 (printed 95)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, A nation in the making, pp. 3-4 (printed 95-96)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, A nation in the making, p. 4 (printed 96)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Who did the Congress seek to speak for? (Source 1), p. 3 (printed 95)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Fig. 13 caption, Sarojini Naidu, p. 14 (printed 106)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Freedom is our birthright; Fig. 5, pp. 4-6 (printed 96-98)