Political associations before INC

Question 1

Zamindari association or Landholders society

Answer 1

Beginning of an organised political activity. Formed to protect interests of landholders

Question 2

Bengal British India Society

Answer 2

1843

Question 3

British Indian Association

Answer 3

1851 (by merging Zamindari association and Bengal British India society)

Question 4

East Indian Association

Answer 4

Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866 in London

Question 5

Indian League

Answer 5

1875 (Bengal) by Sisir Kumar Gosh

Question 6

Indian National Association of Calcutta

Answer 6

Superseded Indian league. Founded by Surendranath Benerjee and Anand Mohan Bose in 1876.
It protested against reduction of age limit in civil services for Indians in 1877 under Lytton tenure.
Merged with INC in 1886.

Question 7

Poona Sarvajainik Sabha

Answer 7

M.G Ranade (1867)

Question 8

Bombay Presidency Association

Answer 8

Babruddin Tyabji; Pherozshah Mehta; K.T. Telang in 1885

Question 9

Madras Mahajan Sabha

Answer 9

Viraraghavachari; Subramania Aiyer; Ananda Charlu (1884)