UPSC CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION PRELIMS 2019 SPECIAL MCQs – STATIC – HISTORY LECTURE 10
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Year Location President Importance
1885 Bombay W C Bonnerji 1st session attended by 72 delegates
1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji Witnessed the merger of National Congress and National Conference 1887 Madras Badruddin Tyabji
1888 Allahabad George Yule First English president
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Year Location President Importance 1896 Calcutta Rahimtullah M. National song Sayani ‘Vande Mataram’ sung for the first time
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Year Location President Importance 1905 Benaras Gopal Krishna Expressed Gokhale Resentment against partition of Bengal 1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji Swaraj mentioned as the goal of the Congress 1907 Surat Rash Behari Ghosh Party splits into extremists and moderates 1908 Madras Rash Behari Ghosh Constitution of the Congress was drawn
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Year Location President Importance 1909 Lahore Madan Mohan Expressed Malaviya Disapproval over formation of separate electorates. 1910 Allahabad Sir William Wedderburn
1911 Calcutta Bishan Narayan Jana Gana Mana Das sung for the first time 1916 Lucknow Ambica Charan Lucknow Pact – Mazumdar joint session with the Muslim League www.civilstap.com IMPORTANT CONGRESS SESSIONS
Year Location President Importance 1917 Calcutta Annie Besant First woman president of the INC 1918 Bombay and Delhi Syed Hasan Imam Two sessions (Bombay) and held. First in Madan Mohan Bombay in Malaviya (Delhi) August/Septembe r. Second in Delhi in December 1919 Amritsar Motilal Nehru Condemned Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and boosted Khilafat Movement www.civilstap.com IMPORTANT CONGRESS SESSIONS Year Location President Importance
1920 Nagpur C Vijayaraghavachariar New Constitution of the Congress framed
1921 Ahmedaba Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President d for C R Das) 1922 Gaya C R Das Formation of Swaraj Party 1923 Delhi Abul Kalam Azad Special session. Azad was the youngest president 1924 Belgaum M K Gandhi First and the last session presided by Mahatama Gandhi www.civilstap.com IMPORTANT CONGRESS SESSIONS
Year Location President Importance 1925 Kanpur Sarojini Naidu First Indian woman president
1926 Guwahati S Srinivasa Iyengar
1927 Madras M A Ansari
1928 Calcutta Motilal Nehru All India Youth Congress formed
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Year Location President Importance 1929 Lahore Jawaharlal Nehru Resolution for Poorna Swaraj. Civil disobedience movement for complete independence to be launched, 26 January to be observed as ‘Independence Day’. 1930 No session
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Year Location President Importance 1931 Karachi Vallabhbhai Patel Resolution on fundamental rights and national economic progress. Gandhi-Irwin Pact endorsed. Gandhi nominated to represent INC in the Second Round Table Conference 1932 Delhi R Amritlal
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Year Location President Importance 1933 Calcutta Malaviya was elected but Mrs. Nellie Sengupta presided 1934 Bombay Rajendra Prasad
1936 Lucknow Jawaharlal Nehru Nehru urged Congress to adopt Socialism as its goal. 1937 Faizpur Jawaharlal Nehru First session to be held in a village
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Year Location President Importance 1938 Haripura Subhas Chandra National Planning Bose Committee set up under Nehru 1939 Tripuri Subhas Chandra Bose was elected but had to Bose resign since Gandhi supported Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Instead Rajendra Prasad was appointed
1940 Ramgar Abul Kalam Azad h
1941-45 No session because of arrest
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Year Location President Importance 1946 Meerut Acharya Kripalani Last session before independence
1948 Jaipur Pattabhi First session after Sitaramayya independence
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Q. Which of the following statements are correct in context of Haripura session (1938) of Indian National Congress ? 1) It was presided by Jawaharlal Nehru 2) National Planning Committee was set up in this session under the chairmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru. Select the correct code: a) 1 only b) 2 only c) Both are correct d) None is correct Answer : b
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Q. Which of the following statement/s is/are correct: 1) Jawaharlal Nehru presided over the sessions of Indian National Congress more than twice. 2) Mahatama Gandhi never presided over the Indian National Congress Select the correct code: a) 1 only b) 2 only c) Both are correct d) None is correct Answer : a
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Q. Which of the following statement/s is / are incorrect? 1) Sarojini Naidu became the first women to preside over the session of Indian National Congress 2) The first session of Indian National Congress in 1885 was presided over by A.O. Hume 3) The Surat session of 1907 was presided by Lala Lajpat Rai Select the correct code: a) 2 and 3 only b) 2 only c) 3 only d) All of the above Answer : d
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Q. Consider the following statements regarding sessions of Indian National Congress: 1) The first congress session to be held in village was the Belgaum session presided over by Mahatama Gandhi 2) Mahatama Gandhi presided over a Congress Session only once Which of the above is/are incorrect? a) 1 Only b) 2 Only c) Both the statements d) None of the statements Answer : a
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Q. Which of the following session was presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel? a) Nagpur Session of 1920 b) Lahore Session of 1929 c) Kanpur Session of 1925 d) Karachi Session of 1931 Answer : d
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Q. Which of the following statements are incorrect? 1) The president of the session of the Congress had to belong to the same presidency in which the session was being held 2) The congress sessions in the year 1930, 1935 could not be held a) Nagpur Session of 19 b) Lahore Session of 1929 c) Kanpur Session of 1925 d) Karachi Session of 1931 Answer : b
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Q. Which of the following statements are incorrect? 1) The president of the session of the Congress had to belong to the same presidency in which the session was being held 2) The congress sessions in the year 1930, 1935 could not be held Select the correct code: a) Nagpur Session of 19 b) Lahore Session of 1929 c) Kanpur Session of 1925 d) Karachi Session of 1931 Answer : b
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