Question

chart of timeline of the Indian national movement

Answer 1

:1885

• Formed in 1885 by A.O.Hume, an Englishman and a retired civil servant.

• First session in Bombay under W.C.Banerjee in 1885 (72 delegates attended it).

• In the first two decades (1885 – 1905), quite moderate in its approach and confided in British justice and generosity.

• But the repressive measures of the British gave rise to extremists within Congress like Bipin Chandra Pal, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai (Lal, Bal, Pal).