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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2018 — General Studies · Question 53 of 200

Q53
Indian National MovementRise of Nationalism & the Congress
Who was the first Muslim President of Indian National Congress?
  1. a.Abul Kalam Azad
  2. b.Syed Ahmed Khan
  3. c.Badruddin Tyabji
  4. d.Fazlul Huq

Answer: (C) Badruddin Tyabji

Badruddin Tyabji presided over the third session of the Congress at Madras in 1887 and was its first Muslim president. Sequence of early presidents: W. C. Bonnerjee (Bombay, 1885), Dadabhai Naoroji (Calcutta, 1886), Tyabji (1887), George Yule (Allahabad, 1888, first Englishman). Abul Kalam Azad was the youngest president (1923) and held the post from 1940 to 1946; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan opposed the Congress, and Fazlul Huq was never Congress president.

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