Who was A.O Hume? What role did he play in the history of India?
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Allan Octavian Hume was a member of the Imperial Civil Service, later known as the Indian Civil Service. Hume was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress. He was an Ornithologist too and is fondly remembered as the father of Indian ornithology. This gentleman was critical of British policies in India and he sympathetically witnessed the Indian Rebellion of 1857 as an administrator of Etawah.
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He was Collector and Magistrate of Etawah from 1856 to 1867 during which time he studied the birds of that area. He later became Commissioner of Inland Customs which made him responsible for the control of 2,500 miles (4,000 km) of coast from near Peshawar in the northwest to Cuttack on the Bay of Bengal.
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