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Who was the first woman president of Indian National congress in pre-Independent India?  A. Vijayalakshmi Pandit B. Sarojini Naidu C. Annie Besant D. Madam Cama 

Who was the first woman president of Indian National congress in pre-Independent India?  A. Vijayalakshmi Pandit B. Sarojini Naidu C. Annie Besant D. Madam Cama  Correct Answer C

Option 1 is correct, i.e. Annie Besant.

Annie Besant:

  • She presided over the 1917 session in Calcutta and became the first woman president of INC.
  • Annie Besant was the second President of The Theosophical Society from 1907 to 1933.

Extra facts:

Sarojini Naidu:

  • She presided over the 1925 session in Kanpur.
  • She is often known as the ‘The Nightingale of India’.

Vijayalakshmi Pandit:

  • She becomes the first woman in pre-independent India to hold a cabinet position of local self-government and public health in the year 1937 to 1939.
  • she is better known as Jawaharlal Nehru’s younger sister.

Madam Cama:

  • On August 21, 1907, an International Socialist Conference was being held at Stuttgart, a city in Germany.
  • It was on this occasion that Bhikaji Rustom Cama unfurled the first version of the Indian national flag a tricolor of green, saffron, and red stripes.

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