HISTORY

HISTORY NOTES: INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS(Part-II) for RRB NTPC and SSC CHSL EXAM

INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Mean of congress

      Group of people     Term “congress” borrowed from USA     Term ‘congress’ given by Dada Bhai Naoroji

 Establishment

     28 Dec 1885     Place: Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit Mahavidayala     Gwalia tank, Bombay     Founder: A.O.Hume     1st chairman: W. C. Banerji     72 members – In 1st meeting     Lord Dufferin (G.G)

IMPORTANT SESSION OF INC 

22nd Session, 1906

        Calcutta         Dada Bhai Naroji       Congress declared his Aim “Swaraj”

 23rd Summit, 1907

         Surat         Ras Bihari Ghosh         Congress split into two parts. (i) Moderate (ii) Extremist

 26th Summit, 1911

         Calcutta         Visan Narayan        On congress stage, first time Jan Gan Man was sung.

 31st Summit, 1916

         Lucknow         Ambika charan Muzumdar         Lucknow part (i) Muslim League (ii) Congress        Narampanth + Garampanth

 32nd Session, 1917

        Calcutta        Annie Besant (1st Lady)

 35th Session, 1920

         Nagpur         Veer Raghavachan         Resolution of non-cooperation movement passed in this session

 (i) 38th Session

         Kakinada (A. P.), Maulana Mohamad Ali;

(ii) Special Session

         Delhi, Abul Kalam Azad → He was the youngest leader of (35 yrs.)

 39th session, 1924

         Belgaum (Karnataka)         M. K. Gandhi (1st and last time chairman of congress)

 40th Session, 1925

         Kanpur         Sarojini Naidu (1st Indian lady)

 44th Session, 1929

         Lahore         J. L. Nehru         ‘Absolute freedom’ – Congress declared their aim of ‘Absolute freedom’.

 45th Session, 1931

       Karachi        Sardar Patel        First time, demand of fundamental rights were made 

 50th Session, 1937

         Faizpur (W.B.)         J. L. Nehru         First time any session held in a village

 51st Session, 1938

         Haripura (GJ)         Subhash chandra Bose

 52nd Session, 1939

         Tripuri (M.P.)         S. C. Bose (He defeated pattabhi sitaramaiya who was supported by Gandhiji)         National planning committee was constituted under the chairmanship of J. L. Nehru.

 53rd Session, 1940

         Ramgarh         Maulana Abul Kalam Azad        1940 – 45 (He was the chairman)       Longest tenure of Inc chairman – Sonia Gandhi]

 54th session, 1940

         Meerut         J. B. Kriplani (He was the chairman at the time of Independence of India)

 60th Session, 1955

        Awari (Madras)       Congress declare their aim “Democratic Socialism”.