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Friday, May 28, 2004

Indian National Congress Roots

Did you know that INC was actually founded by a Scottsman named Allan Octavian Hume! I didn't. Hume (June 6, 1829 - July 31, 1912) was a British civil servant in India under the Raj.

From wikipedia: "Hume retired from the civil service in 1882. In 1883 he wrote an open letter to the graduates of Calcutta University, calling upon them to form their own national political movement. This led in 1885 to the first session of the Indian National Congress held in Bombay. Hume served as its General Secretary until 1908."

The most interesting bit about INC is this: ""It was founded in 1885 with the object of obtaining a greater share in government for educated Indians, and was initially not opposed to British rule."
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