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Indian National Congress

centrist-liberal political party in India

7 dated entries naming Indian National Congress, drawn from 7 separate years between 1867 CE and 1980 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Congress (I), Congress I, Congress Parliamentary Party, Indian National Congress Party in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1867Dadabhai Naoroji established the East India Association, one of the predecessor organisations of the Indian National Congresssource
  • 1885December 28 – 72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather in Bombay to form the Congress Party.source

20th century

  • 1917December – Annie Besant becomes president of the Indian National Congress.source
  • 1930January 26 – The Indian National Congress declares this date as Independence Day, or as the day for Purna Swaraj (Complete Independence).source
  • 1931September 7 – The Second Round Table Conference on the constitutional future of India opens in London; Mahatma Gandhi represents the Indian National Congress.source
  • 1977March 19 – Results of elections to the Indian Parliament are declared. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition Janata alliance.source
  • 1980January 14 – Indian National Congress party leader Indira Gandhi returns to power as the Prime Minister of India.source

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