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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2024 — General Studies · Question 86 of 200

Q86
Indian National MovementLeaders & Personalities
Who was sent by the Indian National Congress to represent its views at the Versailles Conference in 1919?
  1. a.B. G. Tilak
  2. b.Annie Besant
  3. c.C. R. Das
  4. d.S. N. Banerjee

Answer: (A) B. G. Tilak

At its Delhi session (December 1918) the Congress named B.G. Tilak, Gandhi and Syed Hasan Imam as its delegates to the Paris (Versailles) Peace Conference. Tilak, who was already in England for his libel suit against Valentine Chirol, was the one who pressed the case: he sent a memorandum to the conference president Georges Clemenceau and appealed to US President Woodrow Wilson for Indian self-determination, but the British government refused him a passport to Paris. India was officially represented there by Secretary of State Edwin Montagu, S.P. Sinha and Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner. Annie Besant led the Home Rule League, C.R. Das later founded the Swaraj Party (1923), and Surendranath Banerjee had by then left the Congress with the Moderates.

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