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Revision note: Rise of Nationalism and the Moderate Phase of the Congress (1885–1905)

  • Causes: drain, unification, Western education, press, Lytton's measures (VPA 1878, Arms Act, ICS age 19), Ilbert Bill 1883 (Ripon)
  • Pre-Congress: East India Association 1866 (Naoroji, London), Indian Association 1876 (S.N. Banerjee), Poona Sarvajanik Sabha 1870
  • INC: 28 Dec 1885, Bombay, 72 delegates, W.C. Bonnerjee; Hume; safety-valve vs lightning conductor
  • Presidents: Naoroji 1886, Tyabji 1887, George Yule 1888
  • Moderates: prayer, petition, protest; drain theory; Indian Councils Act 1892; Naoroji MP 1892
  • Curzon: "tottering to its fall"; Universities Act 1904; Partition 1905
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