Indian National Congress: Early Phase & Moderates Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What genuinely major demand did the Moderates themselves actually make regarding British military spending?

Question 2

What further genuine limitation actually restricted these members' own right to question the government?

Question 3

What genuinely major demand did these several early Congress sessions actually deliberately avoid making?

Question 4

What economic historian actually wrote a genuinely influential treatise supporting Naoroji's own Drain of Wealth theory?

Question 5

What British sympathiser actually chaired the Congress's own dedicated British Committee, from 1889 onward?

Question 6

What overall picture does Dadabhai Naoroji's own remarkable career, covered across this whole pack, actually give of the Moderates?

Question 7

What genuinely dismissive remark did Lord Dufferin himself actually make about the Congress, back in 1886?

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About Indian National Congress: Early Phase & Moderates

Long before the Congress itself was founded, a whole series of early political associations had already begun demanding a greater Indian voice in governance. This quiz starts with those precursor bodies, the Landholders' Society and British Indian Association, the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, the Indian Association, and the East India Association, and with the Ilbert Bill controversy of 1883 that helped push Indian public opinion toward a single, unified national platform.

It then covers the founding of the Indian National Congress itself in December 1885, Allan Octavian Hume's own pivotal role, the debated "safety valve" theory of its origins, and its very first sessions and presidents, from W.C. Bonnerjee at Bombay through to Badruddin Tyabji, George Yule, and William Wedderburn.

A large part of this quiz is then devoted to the individual Moderate leaders who dominated the Congress in these early decades: Dadabhai Naoroji, the "Grand Old Man of India" and author of the Drain of Wealth theory, along with Surendranath Banerjee, Pherozeshah Mehta, Mahadev Govind Ranade, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

It closes with the Moderates' own distinctive methods and demands, their famous reliance on petition, prayer, and protest, the Indian Councils Act of 1892 that their agitation helped bring about, and the mounting criticism, from Lord Dufferin's dismissal of the Congress as a "microscopic minority" to the more radical nationalists' own charge of "political mendicancy", that would soon give rise to a far more assertive phase of the freedom struggle.