Question

explain the role and influence of moderate on the INA

Answer 1

*.Congress politics during the first twenty years of its history is roughly referred to as moderate politics. Congress atthat time was hardly a full-fledged political party; it was more in the nature of an annual conference, which deliberated and adopted resolutions during the“three daytamashas”, and then dispersed.*.Its members were mostly part-time politicians, who weresuccessful professionals in their personal lives-a thoroughly Anglicized upper class who had very little time and commitment for full-time politics.Moderate Leaders:*.The leading figures during the first phase of the National Movement wereA.O. Hume, W.C. Banerjee, Surendra Nath Banerjee, Dadabhai Naoroji, Feroze Shah Mehta, Gopalakrishna Gokhale, PanditMadan Mohan Malaviya, Badruddin Tyabji, Justice Ranade, G.Subramanya Aiyar etc.W.C. Banerjee*.He was the first president of Indian National Congress. He was thefirst Indian to contest the election for the British House of Commonsalthough he lost the election.*.He was the president of the Indian National Congress again in the 1892 session in AllahabadFeroze Shah Mehta*.Sir Pherozeshah Mehta (4 August 1845 – 5 November 1915) was a Parsi Indian political leader, activist, and a leading lawyer of Mumbai, whowas knighted by the British Government in India for his service to the law.He was known asThe Lion of Bombay.*.He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay Municipality in 1873 and its President four times.Pherozeshah Mehta wasnominated to the Bombay Legislative Council in 1887 and in 1893 a member of the Imperial Legislative Council.*.He was chosen the president of the Indian National Congress in 1890.*.In 1910, he startedBombay Chronicle, an English-language weekly newspaper