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Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 1996
What to Study: Remember the Indian National Conference: the years of its two sessions and its two main architects. Understand how it, along with the mood of the late 1870s and early 1880s, prepared the ground for an all-India organisation.
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 2004UPSC 2008
What to Study: Who was A.O. Hume, and what part did he play in founding the Congress? Remember the venue, city, month and year of the first session, the number of delegates and the president. Also remember the Congress's earlier name, and understand how its sessions were held after that.
Asked in UPSC PrelimsUPSC 1998UPSC 2000UPSC 2004UPSC 2013UPSC 2015
What to Study: Who were the great presidents of the early Congress, including the one who presided three times? Also remember the other prominent leaders of the period.
What to Study: Who was Kadambini Ganguly, and what 'first' did she achieve at the 1890 session? Remember her place among the first women graduates of Calcutta University. Understand what this showed about the place of women in the freedom struggle.
What to Study: What was the 'safety valve' theory of the Congress's origin, and what role does it give Lord Dufferin? Remember which leader believed in it and which Marxist historian put forward the 'conspiracy theory'. How does the conspiracy theory differ from the safety valve idea it grew out of?
What to Study: Why do modern Indian historians reject the safety valve idea? Understand what 'lightning conductor' means here and why the early leaders needed Hume. Which historian put forward this view? Be able to compare it with the safety valve theory.
What to Study: Understand the main aims of the early Congress. Give most attention to building an anti-colonial ideology, presenting common demands on economic and political questions, and creating national unity across religion, caste and province.