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INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 1885-1947

Year 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1918 1919 1920 1920 1921 Place Bombay Calcutta Madras Allahabad Bombay Calcutta Nagupur Allahabad Lahore Madras Poona Calcutta Amraoti Madras Lucknow Lahore Calcutta Ahmedabad Madras Bombay Banaras Calcutta Surat Madras Lahore Allahabad Calcutta Patna Karachi Madras Bombay Lucknow Calcutta Bombay (special) Delhi Amritsar Calcutta Nagpur Ahmedabad President W.C. Bannerji Dadabhai Naoroji Syed Badruddin Tyabji George Yule Sir William Wedderburn Sir Pherozeshah Mehta P. Anandacharlu W C Bannerji Dadabhai Naoroji Alfred Webb Surendranath Banerji M Rahimtullah Sayani C Sankaran Nair Anandamohan Bose Romesh Chandra Dutt N G Chandravarkar E Dinsha Wacha Surendranath Banerji Lalmohan Ghosh Sir Henry Cotton G KGokhale Dadabhai Naoroji Rashbehari Ghosh Rashbehari Ghosh Madanmohan Malaviya Sir William Wedderburn Bishan Narayan Dhar R N Mudhalkar Syed Mahomed Bahadur Bhupendranath Bose Sir S P Sinha A C Majumdar Mrs. Annie Besant Syed Hassan Imam Madanmohan Malaviya Motilal Nehru Lala Lajpat Rai C Vijaya Raghavachariyar Hakim Ajmal Khan (acting president) Important Attended by 72 delegates Number of delegates increased to 436 First Muslims president First English president Number of delegates increased to 1889

The word Swaraj used for the first time by the president congress split and session broke up. A Constitution for the congress

Congress merger & pact with Muslim League. First Woman President

Resignation of moderates like S N Banerji

Change in the constitution of the Congress Presid ent C R Das was in prison

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1922 1923 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941-45 1946 1947

Gaya Delhi Coconada Belgaon Cawnpore Gauhati Madras Calcutta Lahore No session Karachi Delhi Calcutta Bombay No session Lucknow Faizpur Haripura Tripuri Ramgarh No session Meerut Delhi

C R Das Abul Kalam Azad Maulana Muhammad Ali Mahatma Gandhi Mrs.Sarojini Naidu Srinivas Ayanagar M A Ansari Motilal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru J L Nehru continued Vallabhbhai Patel R D Amritlal Mrs. Nellie Sengupta Rajendra Prasad R Prasad continued Jawahar lal Nehru Jawahar lal Nehru Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose Abul Kalam Azad Azad continued J B Kripalani Rajendra Prasad

Formation of Swaraj Party youngest president

First Indian woman president Independence Resolution passed for the first time at the insistence of J L Nehru First all India Youth Congress Poorna Swaraj Resolution Resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Policy

Formation of Congress Socialist Party

First session to be held in a village Resignation of Bose (Rajendra Prasad took over) Formation o f Forward Bloc

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