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  • Wemsh Chandra Bonnerjee
  • Indian National Congress was created as a gathering for emerging nationalist feeling.
  • The founding members proposed economic reforms and wanted a larger role in the making of British policy for India.

Sources

Goals

  • See S. Kochanek, The Congress Party of India (1968); A. M. Zaidi and S. Zaidi, The Encyclopaedia of the Indian National Congress (18 vol., 1976–83); B. N. Pande, A Concise History of the Indian National Congress, 1947–1985 (1986); P. Brass and F. Robinson, Indian National Congress 1885–1985 (1987).
  • Brown, Judith M., The Short Modern History of the Modern World (New York; Oxford University Press, 1994)
  • BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
  • "What Were the Objectives and Demands of the Indian National Congress?" What Were the Objectives and Demands of the Indian National Congress? N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2013
  • http://suite101.com/a/mahatma-gandhi-satyagraha-and-indian-independence-a345906
  • http://aicc.org.in/index.php/past_presidents/address/1#.Uq8QSPLNnvM (Carrie)
  • Obtaining a greater share in government for educated Indians, was created to form a platform for civic and political dialogue.
  • Demand a wider power for councils and self government.
  • Remove poverty by the rapid expansion in agriculture and industries.
  • Freedom of speech and press

Indian National Congress

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Quit India

  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi started the "Quit India" movement in 1942
  • British VS. Germany War

Mohandas Ghandi

  • 2 October 1869
  • leader of Indian nationalist movement (British rule)
  • London (train as barrister)
  • president of INC(1921)

Significance Today

Satyagraha & civil disobedience

  • Mahatma Gandhi was an important leader in the nonviolent movement for freedom in India.
  • Many people such as scholars, activists, and nonviolent practitioners still use Gandhi's techniques from Satyagraha when campaigning for peace.
  • India fell under British control in 1858
  • Satyagraha (1920) means truth force
  • Civil Disobedience gains the attention of unfair laws or regimes in a civil way.
  • Noncooperation (strikes, protests, demonstrations, etc.) tried to give power back to the people.
  • Satyagraha movement ended in 1922
  • India gained independence in 1947

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1885 Indian National Congress

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