Indian National Congress 1885

Congress was established by the British as their own security wall but Congress became a platform of Indian revolutionaries.The founder of the Congress was the civil officer of Scotland A. O. Hume was called the Hermit of Shimla.The annual meeting of the Congress was called the session.Congress session used to be held in the month of December but after 1930 it started happening from January.The first president of the Congress session was Womesh Chandra Banerjee.Dadabhai Naoroji named it Indian National Congress. Earlier its name was Indian National Union.The first session of Congress was proposed in Poona but plague spread there.Due to his departure, he was sent to the Gokul Das Tejpal Sanskrit School in Bombay.Which took part in a total of 72 delegates.When the Congress was founded in 1885, Lord Dufferin was the Viceroy of India at that time.The period of the first 20 years of the Congress is called the period of liberals because at this time the Congress used to say yes to the British.Bal Gangadhar Tilak has called the period of liberalism as the period of political education.Prominent Leaders of the Liberal Era W.C. Banerjee Dada Bhai Naoroji and Rabindranath Tagore When the British partitioned Bengal in 1905, rebellion started from within the Congress as well, which further split into extremists and moderates.