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Indian national congress | Presidents & Sessions

Posted on 27/06/202102/10/2021 By GK Questions No Comments on Indian national congress | Presidents & Sessions
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1 Indian national congress history
1.1 Aims and Objective of Indian national congress
1.2 Sessions and Presidents of Indian national congress
1.2.1 President of Indian national congress
1.2.2 Sessions (Year)
1.2.3 Place
1.3 FAQs on INC

Indian national congress history

The final idea of the INC was shaped by a retired English civil servant, A.O Hume, who mobilized leading intellectuals of the time and with their cooperation organized the first session of the INC under the Presidentship of Womesh Chandra Bonnerjea at Bombay in December 1885.

Hereafter, the INC met every year in December in a different part of the country. In 1890, Kadambini Ganguly, the first woman graduate of Calcutta University, addressed the congress session.

Aims and Objective of Indian national congress

The following are the aims and objectives of the INC:

  • Found a democratic, nationalist movement.
  • Politically educate and politicize the people.
  • Establish the headquarter for a movement.
  • Promote friendly relations among nationalist political workers from across the country.
  • Develop an anti-colonial ideology.
  • Promote Indian nationhood.

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Sessions and Presidents of Indian national congress 

The sessions of the INC  were mostly held in the month of December since 1885. Here the list of President of the Indian national congress and sessions with year is given below:

President of Indian national congress
Sessions (Year)
Place

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

1885

Bombay

Dadabhai Naoroji

1886

Calcutta

Badruddin Tyabji

1887

Madras

George Yule

1888

Allahabad

William Wedderburn

1889

Bombay

Pherozeshah Mehta

1890

Calcutta

Anandacharlu

1891

Nagpur

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

1892

Allahabad

Dadabhai Naoroji

1893

Lahore

Alfred Webb

1894

Madras

Surendranath Banerjee

1895

Poona

Rahimtulla M. Sayani

1896

Calcutta

C. Sankaran Nair

1897

Amaravati

Anandamohan Bose

1898

Madras

Romesh Chunder Dutt

1899

Lucknow

N. G. Chandavarkar

1900

Lahore

Dinshaw Edulji Wacha

1901

Calcutta

Surendranath Banerjee

1902

Ahmedabad

Lalmohan Ghosh

1903

Madras

Henry Cotton

1904

Bombay

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

1905

Banaras

Dadabhai Naoroji

1906

Calcutta

Rashbihari Ghosh

1907

Surat

Rashbihari Ghosh

1908

Madras

Madan Mohan Malaviya

1909

Lahore

William Wedderburn

1910

Allahabad

Bishan Narayan Dar

1911

Calcutta

Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar

1912

Bankipore

Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur

1913

Karachi

Bhupendra Nath Bose

1914

Madras

Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

1915

Bombay

Ambica Charan Mazumdar

1916

Lucknow

Annie Besant

1917

Calcutta

Madan Mohan Malaviya

1918

Delhi

Syed Hasan Imam

1918

Bombay (special session)

Motilal Nehru

1919

Amritsar

Lala Lajpat Rai

1920

Calcutta

C. Vijayaraghavachariar

1920

Nagpur (special session)

Hakim Ajmal Khan

1921

Ahmedabad

Chittaranjan Das

1922

Gaya

Mohammad Ali Jouhar

1923

Kakinada

Abul Kalam Azad

1923

Delhi (Special Session)

Mahatma Gandhi

1924

Belgaum

Sarojini Naidu

1925

Kanpur

S. Srinivasa Iyengar

1926

Guwahati

Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari

1927

Madras

Motilal Nehru

1928

Calcutta

Jawaharlal Nehru

1929

Lahore

Jawaharlal Nehru

1930

Karachi

Vallabhbhai Patel

1931

Karachi

Madan Mohan Malaviya

1932

Delhi

Nellie Sengupta

1933

Calcutta

Rajendra Prasad

1934

Bombay

Rajendra Prasad

1935

Lucknow

Jawaharlal Nehru

1936

Lahore

Jawaharlal Nehru

1937

Faizpur

Subhas Chandra Bose

1938

Haripura

Subhas Chandra Bose

1939

Jabalpur

Rajendra Prasad

1939

Tripuri

Abul Kalam Azad

1940-46

Ramgarh

J. B. Kripalani

1946-47

Meerut

 

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FAQs on INC

Q.) Who was the first president of Indian national congress?

Ans.) The first president of INC was elected in the year 1885 and presided over the first session of INC at Bombay. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee was the first president of INC.

Q.) Who was the first woman president of Indian national congress?

Ans.) The first woman president of INC was elected in the year 1917 and presided over the Calcutta session of INC. Annie Besant was the first woman president of INC.

Q.) Who was the first Muslim president of Indian national congress?

Ans.) The first Muslim president of INC was elected in the year 1887 and presided over the third session of INC at Madras. Badruddin Tyabji was the first Muslim president of INC.

Q.) What is INC full form?

Ans.) The INC was formed in 1885 by a retired English civil servant, A.O Hume in year 1885. The INC full form is Indian National Congress.

 

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