Indian Independence Movement

W.C. Bannerjee (Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee) presided over the first session of the Indian National Congress held in Bombay in 1885.

The Swarajya Party was founded in 1923 by C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru. They formed it after the suspension of the Non-Cooperation Movement to pursue political goals within the legislative councils.

Justice A.R. Lakshmanan was the Chairman of the 18th Law Commission of India, which functioned from 2006 to 2009.

G.V. Mavalankar was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, serving from 1952 to 1956.

G.V. Mavalankar served as the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1952 to 1956.

UGC was formally inaugurated by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research on 28 December 1953.

Mahatma Gandhi suggested that the Indian National Congress should be disbanded after independence, as he believed its purpose was to achieve freedom, not to govern.

Mahatma Gandhi surrendered the Kaiser-e-Hind medal, which was awarded to him by the British government for his humanitarian work in South Africa, as a protest during the Non-cooperation movement.

The Poona Pact was signed by B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi (represented by Madan Mohan Malaviya). C. Rajagopalachari was involved in the negotiations but was not a primary signatory of the pact document itself.

The Swarajya Party was formed on January 1, 1923, by Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru after the Gaya session of the Indian National Congress.

The Indian Education Commission of 1882, also known as the Hunter Commission, was appointed by Lord Ripon and chaired by Sir William Wilson Hunter.

S. N. Sen was commissioned by the Government of India to write the official history of the 1857 revolt, published as 'Eighteen Fifty-Seven'.

After Subhas Chandra Bose resigned from the presidency of the Indian National Congress in 1939, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected to succeed him.