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SESSIONS WITH PLACE & PRESIDENTS

No. Name of President Year of Presidency Place of Conference

1 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1885 Bombay

2 1886 Calcutta

3 1887 Madras

4 George Yule 1888 Allahabad

5 1889 Bombay

6 1890 Calcutta

7 Anandacharlu 1891 Nagpur

8 Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1892 Allahabad

9 Dadabhai Naoroji 1893

10 1894 Madras

11 1895 Poona

12 DIMENSIONSRahimtulla M. Sayani 1896 Calcutta

13 C. Sankaran Nair 1897 Amravati

14 1898 Madras INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS WITH PLACE & PRESIDENTS

15 1899 Lucknow

16 N. G. Chandavarkar 1900 Lahore

17 1901 Calcutta

18 Surendranath Banerjee 1902 Ahmedabad

19 1903 Madras

20 Henry Cotton 1904 Bombay

21 1905 Benares

22 Dadabhai Naoroji 1906 Calcutta

23 Rashbihari Ghosh 1907 Surat

24 Rashbihari Ghosh 1908 Madras

25 1909 Lahore

26 William Wedderburn 1910 Allahabad

27 DIMENSIONSBishan Narayan Dar 1911 Calcutta

28 Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar 1912 Bankipore

29 Nawab Syed Muhammad Bahadur 1913 Karachi INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS WITH PLACE & PRESIDENTS

30 1914 Madras

31 Lord Satyendra Prasanna Sinha 1915 Bombay

32 Ambica Charan Mazumdar 1916 Lucknow

33 1917 Calcutta

34 Madan Mohan Malaviya 1918

35 1918 Bombay (Special Session)

36 1919

37 1920 Calcutta (Special Session)

38 C. Vijayaraghavachariar 1920 Nagpur

Deshbandhu (President)

39 1921 Ahmedabad (Acting President)

40 Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das 1922 Gaya

41 Mohammad Ali Jouhar 1923 Kakinada

42 1923 Delhi (Special Session)

43 Mohandas Gandhi 1924 Belgaum

44 1925 Kanpur

45 DIMENSIONSS. Srinivasa Iyengar 1926 Gauhati

46 1927 Madras

47 Motilal Nehru 1928 Calcutta

48 1929 & 30 Lahore

49 1931 Karachi

50 Madan Mohan Malaviya 1932 Delhi

51 1933 Calcutta INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SESSIONS WITH PLACE & PRESIDENTS

52 1934 & 35 Bombay

53 Jawaharlal Nehru 1936 Lucknow

54 Jawaharlal Nehru 1936 Faizpur

55 1938 Haripura Subhas Chandra Bose (resigned) 56 Rajendra Prasad replaced Bose after 1939 Tripuri near Jabalpur the session.

57 Abul Kalam Azad 1940–46 Ramgarh

58 J. B. Kripalani 1947 Meerut

Indian National Congress - Important Points:

Indian National Congress was founded in the year - 1885 Indian National Congress was founded by - First session of Indian National Congress was held at - (1885) Who was the Viceroy of British when the Indian Lord Dufferin National Congress was founded - During the early phase of its existence, i.e., 1885-1905 Independence from British rule Indian National Congress never made this demand - First woman president of Indian National Congress - Mrs Annie Besant (1917) First Indian woman president of Indian National Mrs Sarojini Naidu (1925) Congress - Woman Presidents of Indian National Congress - Mrs Annie Besant (1917), Mrs Sarojini Naidu (1925) and Mrs. Nellie Sengupta (1933) First split of Indian National Congress - 1907 at Surat session First Englishmen to become president of Indian George Yule (1888) National Congress - Youngest president of Indian National Congress - Maulana Abul Kalam Azad First Muslim to become president of Indian National Badrudin Tayabji (Madras, 1887) Congress - National Song, Vande Mataram was first sung in the Calcutta (1896) session of - First joint session of Indian National Congress and Lucknow (1916) Muslim League - Session of Indian National Congress where wearing of Mrs Annie Besant (1917) Khadi was madeDIMENSIONS compulsory for its workers- National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana was first sung in Calcutta (1911) the session of - The only session of Indian National Congress presided Belgaum (1924) over by - Session of Indian National Congress where demand 1929 at Lahore for complete independence was made - President of Indian National Congress at the time of Acharya J B Kriplani (1946) independence -