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FOUNDATION
➮ The architect of Indian National congress was Allan Octavion Hume a retired English ICS officer, who founded this in December 1885 along with seventy one other political workers.
➮ The first meeting of the INC was organised by A.O. Hume at Gokaldas Tejpal Sanskrit College on December 28th, 1885 in Bombay.
➮ Hume’s main purpose in encouraging the foundation of the congress was to provide a ‘safety valve to the growing discontent among the educated Indians.
➮ This was a myth and the core of the myth is that a violent revolution was on the varge at nipped in the bud, by the foundation of the INC.
