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The need for an all-India organisation of educated Indians had been felt since 1880, but the Ilbert Bill Publicist – Someone controversy deepened this desire. The Indian National who publicises an idea by Congress was established when 72 delegates from all circulating information, over the country met at Bombay in December 1885. The writing reports, speaking early leadership – Dadabhai Naoroji, Pherozeshah Mehta, at meetings Badruddin Tyabji, W.C. Bonnerji, Surendranath Banerji, Romesh Chandra Dutt, S. Subramania Iyer, among others – was largely from Bombay and Calcutta. Naoroji, a businessman and publicist settled in London, and for a time member of the British Parliament, guided the younger nationalists. A retired British official, A.O. Hume, also played a part in bringing Indians from the various regions together. Source 1 Who did the Congress seek to speak for? A newspaper, The Indian Mirror, wrote in January 1886: The First National Congress at Bombay … is the nucleus of a future Parliament for our country, and will lead to thegoodofinconceivablemagnitudeforourcountrymen. Badruddin Tyabji addressed the Congress as President in 1887 thus: this Congress is composed of the representatives, not of any one class or community of India, but of all the different communities of India. Fig. 2 – Dadabhai Naoroji Naoroji’s book Poverty and A nation in the making Un-British Rule in India offered a scathing criticism of the It has often been said that the Congress in the first twenty economic impact of British rule. years was “moderate” in its objectives and methods. During this period, it demanded a greater voice for Indians in the government and in administration. It wanted the Legislative Councils to be made more representative, given more power, and introduced in provinces where  Activity none existed. It demanded that Indians be placed in high positions in the government. For this purpose, it called for From the beginning the civil service examinations to be held in India as well, not Congress sought to just in London. speak for, and in the name of, all the Indian The demand for Indianisation of the administration was part of a movement against racism, since most people. Why did it important jobs at the time were monopolised by white choose to do so? THE MAKING OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT: 1870s –1947 95 Reprint 2024-25