List of Indian National Congress Sessions Pre-Independence

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress was established in 1885 and became one of the most important political parties before the Independence and during the pre-independence of India. The founders of the Indian National Congress were Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. It was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa.

The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in 1885 in Bombay from 28th Dec to 31st of December. The first president of the National Congress was Mr Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee in which 72 delegates participated. In this article, we have included a list of Indian National Congress sessions, with location and the president of the session.

List of Indian National Congress Sessions

Indian National Congress Sessions Pre-Independence
Year	President	Location
1885	W C Bonnerjee	Bombay
1886	Dadabhai Naoroji	Calcutta
1887	Syed Badruddin Tyabji	Madras
1888	George Yule	Allahabad
1889	Sir William Wedderburn	Bombay
1890	Feroz Shah Mehta	Calcutta
1891	P. Ananda Charlu	Nagpur
1892	W C Bonnerjee	Allahabad
1893	Dadabhai Naoroji	Lahore
1894	Alfred Webb	Madras
1895	Suremdranath Banerjee	Poona
1896	Rahimtullah M. Sayani	Calcutta
1897	C. Sankaran Nair	Amravati
1898	Ananda Mohan Bose	Madras
1899	Romesh Chandra Dutt	Lucknow
1900	N G Chandavarkar	Lahore
1901	Dinshaw E. Wacha	Calcutta
1902	Surendranath Banerjee	Ahmedabad
1903	Lal Mohan Ghosh	Madras
1904	Sir Henry Cotton	Bombay
1905	Gopal Krishna Gokhale	Benares
1906	Dadabhai Naoraji	Calcutta
1907	Rash Behari Ghosh	Surat
1908	Rash Behari Ghosh	Madras
1909	Madan Mohan Malaviya	Lahore
1910	Sir William Wedderburn	Allahabad
1911	Bishan Narayan Dhar	Calcutta
1912	Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar	Bankipore
1913	Syed Mohammed	Karachi
1914	Bhupendra Nath Basu	Madras
1915	Satyendra Prasanna Sinha	Bombay
1916	Ambica Charan Mazumdar	Lucknow
1917	Annie Besant	Calcutta
1918	Syed Hasan Imam and Madan Mohan Malaviya	Bombay and Delhi
1919	Motilal Nehru	Amritsar
1920	C Vijayaraghavachariar	Nagpur
1921	Hakim Ajmal Khan	Ahmedabad
1922	C R Das	Gaya
1923	Maulana Mohammad Ali	Kakinada
1924	M K Gandhi	Belgaum
1925	Sarojini Naidu	Kanpur
1926	S Srinivasa Iyengar	Guwahati
1927	M A Ansari	Madras
1928	Motilal Nehru	Calcutta
1929	Jawaharlal Nehru	Lahore
1931	Vallabhbhai Patel	Karachi
1932	Amrit Ranchhorddas Seth	Delhi
1933	Mrs. Nellie Sengupta	Calcutta
1934	Rajendra Prasad	Bombay
1936	Jawaharlal Nehru	Fazipur
1937	Jawaharlal Nehru	Lucknow
1938	Subhas Chandra Bose	Haripura
1939	Subhas Chandra Bose	Tripuri
1940	Abul Kalam Azad	Ramgarh
1946	Acharya Kripalani	Meerut
1948	Pattabhi Sitaramayya	Jaipur

FAQs related to Indian National Congress

1. When was the first Indian National Congress session held?
Ans. The first Indian National Congress session was held in 1885 which was held in Bombay and it was attended by 72 delegates.

2. Who was the President of India in the 4th session of the Indian National Congress session?
Ans. The fourth Indian National Congress session was held in Allahabad in 1888 and the president was George Yule.