Indian National Congress History

Indian National Congress

founded in 1885 on the advice of Allan Octavian Hume

Indian National Congress Split

In 1907 Surat, Party splits into extremists and moderates

The Moderades of INC

believed in peaceful approach
The demands of moderates were described as Political Mendicacy
Surendranath Banarjee, Dadabai Naoroji,
Pherozeshah Mehta, Gopala Krishna Gokhale and M.G.Ranade

Dadabhai Naoroji

known as the Grand Old Man of India
Elected to the British Parliament in 1892
founded the India Society (1865) and the East India Association (1866) in London

Dadabhai Naoroji

He gave the theory of drain of wealth in his book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India 1867
He was elected thrice as the President of the INC 1886, 1893, and 1906

Extremists of INC

Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak,
Bipin Chandra pal, Lala Lajpat Rai,
Arabind Ghoshwere

Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Tilak raised the slogan Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it in 1916 belgaum
he started newspaper kesari in 1881