- The significance of A.O. Hume’s involvement was to remove official hostility.
- The first Session at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Mumbai.
- The first president was Womesh Chandra Bannerjee of Bengal.
- It was attended by 100 men of whom 72 were non-officials and were recongnised as members.
- The founder members were PherozshahMehta, Badruddin Tayabji, W.C. Banerjee, Romesh Chandra Dutt, Dadabhai Naroji etc.
- Initially it was named Indian National Union.
- The name Indian National Congress was on the suggestion of Dadabhai Nauroji.
- Earlier Poona was selected for the venue, but it had to be shifted to Mumbai because of the outbreak of Cholera in Poona.
- The Governor-General of India at the time of its foundation was Lord Dufferin.
- Among the classes, the educated middle class had the largest share in the beginning.
- The legal profession was most heavily represented among the professions.
- The Brahmins among the castes were comparatively large in number.
- Among the provinces, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai took the leading part.
- Landed classes and the masses were absent.
- Foundation of “British Committee of the Congress” in 1889 by Dada Bhai Nauroji, A.O. Hume and William Wedderburn to influence British Public opinion at London.
- Dada Bhai started the journal ‘India’ in 1890.i
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