Question

first phase of national congress.short notes​

Answer 1

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of Moderates

The first phase of Indian National Congress was called the phase of Moderates. The Early Nationalists were known as Moderates. They were a group of political leaders in India active between 1885 and 1905. Their emergence marked the beginning of the organised national movement in India.

Answer 2

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The First Phase (1885–1907) :

According to Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, a Bengali novelist, India showed a sense of nationhood only twice before it was colonized by Britain: first under the Marathas and then under the Sikhs. Bankimchandra also argued that the liberalism and nationalism introduced by the British were alien to the Hindus. This chapter examines the founding of the Indian National Congress (INC) in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume and others and the dissension within the organisztion that eventually led to the split between the Extremists and the Moderates. It also considers the views of the historians of the Cambridge School regarding India’s unity or lack of it and its emphasis on certain laudable aspects of colonial rule such as local self-government and Western education.