Indian History

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.