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Name the British officials who were present at the first session of the National Congress held on December 28, 1885?

Name the British officials who were present at the first session of the National Congress held on December 28, 1885? Correct Answer Allan Hume, Henri Cotton and William Wedderburn

The correct answer is option 1.

Key Points

  • First Session of INC:
    • ​The first session of the INC was proposed at Poona, but because of an outbreak of plague in Poona, the venue was shifted to Bombay.
    • In the first session that was held in Bombay, at the ‘Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit Pathshala’ only 72 delegates had participated and most of them belonged to a background of lawyers, and there weren’t any women in this session.
    • The first president of this session was W.C. Bonnerjee, a prominent lawyer by vocation.
    • In the very first session, the Early Nationalists, presented 9 resolutions before the British, and Lord Dufferin who was closely watching the activities of the Indian National Congress called the organization a ‘microscopic minority'.
    • British officials who were present at the first session of the National Congress:
      • ​Allan Hume,
      • Henri Cotton and
      • William Wedderburn

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