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WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 27 of 200

Q27
Indian National MovementRise of Nationalism & the Congress
Who was the founder of the Indian National Congress?
  1. a.Dadabhai Naoroji
  2. b.Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi
  3. c.Lord Hardinge
  4. d.A. O. Hume

Answer: (D) A. O. Hume

Allan Octavian Hume, a retired civil servant, took the initiative to found the Indian National Congress, whose first session met in Bombay in December 1885. Dadabhai Naoroji was an early leader and later president, Gandhi joined the movement much later, and Lord Hardinge was a Viceroy.

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