Surat (1907)
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Overview
At its Surat session in 1907 the Indian National Congress split between the Moderates and the Extremists, the event known as the Surat Split.
Surat was earlier the chief Mughal port, the "gate of Mecca", and the English East India Company traded from a factory there; the envoys William Hawkins (1608) and Sir Thomas Roe (1615) won trading rights for the English at Surat. Its merchants, such as Virji Vora, were among the richest in the world.
Geography and key facts
- Surat Split: 1907, Moderates vs Extremists
- Chief Mughal port ("gate of Mecca")
- English trading rights won by Hawkins (1608) and Roe (1615)
- Merchant Virji Vora of Surat
Why it matters for UPSC
Asked on the main reason for the 1907 Congress split (2016), Congress sessions (2010) and a list-matching question (1997).
Note for UPSC
Congress split between moderates and extremists.
Questions link places with movements, sessions and years of the national movement.
Asked in PYQs
- UPSC Prelims 2016 · Q92What was the main reason for the split in the Indian National Congress at Surat in 1907?…
- UPSC Prelims 2010 · Q52Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta session of Indian National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention OR of rejection of these four resolution…
- UPSC Prelims 1997 · Q31Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the Lists: List I I. Surat Split II. Communal Award III. All-Party Convention IV. P…
Questions from our Prelims bank whose text names Surat (1907).
Key facts
- Type
- Freedom-struggle site
- State / UT
- Gujarat
- Year
- 1907
- Coordinates
- 21.205°N, 72.840°E
- Asked in Prelims
- 3 questions · 2016, 2010, 1997
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In the lessons
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