Indian History

Year Location of Session President 1885 Bombay Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji 1887 Madras Badruddin Tyabji 1888 Allahabad George Yule 1889 Bombay William Wedderburn 1890 Calcutta Pherozeshah Mehta 1891 Nagpur P. Ananda Charlu 1892 Allahabad Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1893 Lahore Dadabhai Naoroji 1894 Madras Alfred Webb 1895 Poona Surendranath Banerjea 1896 Calcutta Rahimtulla M. Sayani 1897 Amraoti C. Sankaran Nair 1898 Madras Ananda Mohan Bose 1899 Lucknow Romesh Chunder Dutt 1900 Lahore Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar 1901 Calcutta Dinshaw Edulji Wacha 1902 Ahmedabad Surendranath Banerjea 1903 Madras Lalmohan Ghosh 1904 Bombay Henry Cotton 1905 Benares Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji 1907 Surat Rashbihari Ghosh 1908 Madras Rashbihari Ghosh 1909 Lahore Madan Mohan Malaviya 1910 Allahabad William Wedderburn ...

December 29, 1844 Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee or Umesh Chandra Banerjee, the first president of Indian National Congress in 1885, is born in Calcutta. He was also the first Indian to fight the election to British Parliament.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons December 28 1885 The Indian National Congress (INC) is Founded by A.O. Hume in Mumbai. First session of INC was held in Mumbai from 28 –31 December in 1885.

·          The famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib during the Mughal period was born in Agra on 27 December 1797. Today is Ghalib's 215th birth anniversary.

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur Shah or Babur, as he is generally called, died on 26 th December at the age of 47 in 1530 in Agra. Babur was the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India in 1526. The Mughal rule in India came to an end in 1857 when it last ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Burma by the British. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, founder of Young Bengal Movement, passes away on 26 th December 1831 at a young age of 22 in Calcutta.

Leading nationalist and patriot Madan Mohan Malaviya was born on 25 th December 1961 in Allahabad. He is the founder of Banaras Hindu University in 1916 and remained its vice-chancellor from 1919 to 1938.

Photographer: Martin Hürlimann Source: ebay.com Adil Shahi Dynasty of Bijapur was one of the five succession states that came into existence after disintegration of the Bahmani Sultanate of Deccan. Yusuf Adil Khan was the founder of the Adil Shahi kingdom whose rulers ruled Bijapur from until 1686 when Bijapur was annexed into the Mughal Empire by the last great Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb . Yusuf Adil Khan A protégé of the wazir of Bahmani Sultanate, Mahmud Gawan, Yusuf Adil Khan was a descendant of a scion of the Ottoman dynasty. A prominent figure in the declining years of the Bahmani Sultanate, he was appointed governor of the Bijapur province of the Sultanate.  Yusuf Adil was married to a Babuji Khanam, sister of a Maratha warrior. After a reign of twenty two years Yusuf died in 1510. He was buried in  Gogi, a town in Yadgir district of Karnataka.  The first three rulers of Bijapur Sultanate (excluding Mallu Adil Shahi who was deposed within six months) wer...

Vasco da Gama lands at Calicut, May 20, 1498 On 24th December, 1524, renowned Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama died in Cochin (now Kochi), a major port in India. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, freedom fighter and president of Indian National Congress in 1948, was born in Andhra Pradesh on 24th December, 1880. He was defeated by Subhash Chandra Bose for the post of Congress President in Tripura Session of 1939. Mahatma Gandhi termed Sitaramayya’s defeat as ‘his own’. On 24th December, 1924, famous playback singer Mohammed Rafi was born. Periyar E.V.Ramasami, prominent social worker and freedom fighter, passes away on 24th December in 1973 at the age of 94. He started the Self-Respect Movement, one of the several social movements for the uplift of the society. Melakkath Gopalan Ramachandran, popularly known as MGR, dies on 24th December in 1987.   A very popular politician, he was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The crowd that gathered in his funeral was one of the largest in...