Indian National Congress: Foundation and the 274 Moderate Phase

Question 1

first session of the Indian National Congress

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at Gokuldas Tejpal

Sanskrit College in Bombay

Question 2

first session of the Indian National Congress presided over by

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Womesh

Chandra Bonnerjee

Question 3

In 1890, , the first woman graduate

of Calcutta University, addressed the Congress session

Answer 3

Kadambini Ganguly

Question 4

opined that the Indian National Congress was born out of a conspiracy to abort a popular uprising in India and the bourgeois leaders were a party to it.

Answer 4

R.P Dutt

Question 5

observes, the early Congress leaders used Hume as

a ‘lightning conductor

Answer 5

Bipan Chandra

Question 6

came to be labelled as Moderates

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Dadabhai Naoroji, Pherozshah Mehta, D.E. Wacha, W.C. Bonnerjea, S.N. Banerjea

Question 7

British committee of the Indian National Congress

was established in

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London in 1899

Question 8

Economic Critique of British Imperialism

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Dadabhai Naoroji, R.C. Dutt, Dinshaw Wacha

Question 9

The Imperial Legislative Council constituted by

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Indian Councils Act (1861

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nominated The Imperial Legislative Council

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Syed Ahmed Khan, Kristodas Pal, V.N. Mandlik, K.L.

Nulkar and Rashbehari Ghosh

Question 11

No taxation without representation slogan aftyer which act

Answer 11

Indian Councils Act 1892

Question 12

demanded self-government on the lines of the

self-governing colonies of Canada and Australia

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Dadabhai Naoroji (1904), Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1905) and Lokmanya Tilak (1906)

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The non-official members of the Indian legislative council were to be nominated by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and provincial legislative councils

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Indian Councils Act 1892

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Budget could be discussed. could not be voted upon

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Indian Councils Act 1892

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Questions could be asked. Supplementaries could not be asked, nor could answers to any
question be discussed.

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Indian Councils Act 1892

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called the Congress “a factory of sedition

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Dufferin

Question 17

organise the United Indian Patriotic Association to counter Congress propaganda

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Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Raja Shiv Prasad Singh of Benaras