Indian independence · TURNING POINT ·
Founding of the Indian National Congress (1885)
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28–31 Dec 1885 — Seventy-two delegates, most of them lawyers, journalists and teachers, met at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College under W. C. Bonnerjee, with the retired civil servant A. O. Hume as organiser. They asked, by petition and resolution, for a larger Indian share in the government of India.
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- British Raj and the early Congress (chapter 2 of Indian independence)
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