1. Founded Year
1885
2. Founder
A.O. Hume
father of the Indian National Congress
Allan Octavian Hume
3. Initial members
Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, Mahadev Govind Ranade, William Wedderburn
4. First President of the INC
Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
5. Who was the Second President of Indian National Congress?
Dadabhai Naoroji
6. Who is the First Muslim President of Indian National Congress?
Badruddin Tyabji
7. Who was the first non Indian president of Indian National Congress?
George Yule
8. Who is the First Woman President of Indian National Congress?
Annie Basent
9. Who is the First Indian Woman President of Indian National Congress?
Sarojini Naidu
10. The first session of the INC
Mumbai.28–31 December 1885, and was attended by 72 delegates
11. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of the formation Of Indian national congress
Lord Dufferin
12. leader of the Muslim League
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
13. Partition of Bengal in?
1905
14. Who first put forward the scheme of the Partition of Bengal?
William Ward.
15. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of the Partition of Bengal?
Lord Curzon
16. What was the name of the new province that was created as a result of the Partition of Bengal?
Eastern Bengal and Assam
17. Name the ceremony that was observed on the day of the Partition of Bengal
Rakhi-Bandhan.
18. Name a newspaper that was instrumental in inculcating the spirit of opposition to the Partition of Bengal.
Sandhya
19. When was the Partition of Bengal annulled?
1911
20. When did the Indian National Congress Split into two groups – The extremists and The moderates?
1907 (Surat session)
21. Two split Parties of INC in 1907
Garam Dal(Extremists)- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Naram Dal(Moderates) - Gopal Krishna Gokhale
22. Mohandas Gandhi returned from South Africa in?
1915
23. When did Gandhiji Elected as Congress President?
1924 (Belgam Session)
24. When did Jawaharlal Nehru first Elected as Congress President?
1929 (Lahore Session)
25. What was the special for 1929 Lahore session?
"Poorna Swaraj" (complete independence) was declared
26. When did Subhash Chandra Bose first Elected as Congress President?
1938 (Haripura Session)
27. Who is the Congress President when India won Freedom?
J.B Kripilani
28. Who is the Most elected Congress President?
Jawaharlal Nehru
29. Who is the longest served Woman president of Congress?
Sonia Gandhi
30. Who was popularly known as “Uncrowned Prince of Maharashtra”?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
31. Who is the first Congress President in Independent India?
Pattabhi Sitaramayya
32. Who is the president of Congress, when Indian National Congress Split into two groups – The extremists and The moderates?
Rash Behari Bose
33. Who was known as the 'Grand Old Man' of India?
Dadabhai Naoroji
34. Who founded the Abhinava Bharat?
Savarkar Brothers
35. Who founded the Mitra Mela?
Savarkar Brothers.
36. Name a revolutionary of Punjab.
Ajit Singh
37. Name a revolutionary of Madras
Chidambaram Pillai
38. Name a leader of Maharashtra who played an important role in the Swadeshi movement?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
39. What was the real name of Sister Nivedita?
Margaret E. Nobel
40. During the Indian freedom struggle who of the following founded the Prarthana Samaj ?
Atmaram Pandurang
41. During the Civil Disobedience movement, who led the ‘Red Shirts’ of North-Western India?
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
42. Foundation of Gadar party
Lala Hardyal
43. During whose tenure as the viceroy of India were the great Martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged ?
Lord Irwin
44. Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council?
Lord Mountabatten
45. The Constituent Assembly was set up under the?
Cabinet Mission Plan