Indian National Congress Sessions (from 1885 to 1947)

The Indian national congress foundation was led by the leaders Allan Octavian Hume, Dinshaw Edulji Wacha and Dadabhai Naoroji in 1885. The colloquial term for INC is Congress Party.

Starting as an organisation comprising only of the educated elite in India, it later became a party of commoners with prominent leaders like Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadar Tilak, Gandhi, Nehru, Bose, etc. as its members.

List of Indian National Congress Sessions (from 1885 to 1947)

Foundation Years 1885 – 1900

Session	Place	Date	President
1st Session	Bombay	Dec. 28-30, 1885	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
2nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 27-30, 1886	Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
3rd Session	Madras	Dec. 27-30, 1887	Badruddin Tyabji
4th Session	Allahabad	Dec. 26-29, 1888	George Yule
5th Session	Bombay	Dec. 26-28, 1889	Sir William Wedderburn
6th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-30, 1890	Pherozeshah Mehta
7th Session	Nagpur	Dec. 28-30, 1891	P. Ananda Charlu
8th Session	Allahabad	Dec. 28-30, 1892	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee
9th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-30, 1893	Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
10th Session	Madras	Dec. 26-29, 1894	Alfred Webb
11th Session	Pune	Dec. 27-30, 1895	Surendranath Banerjee
12th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 28-31, 1896	Rahimatullah M. Sayani
13th Session	Amraoti	Dec. 27-29, 1897	C. Sankaran Nair
14th Session	Madras	Dec. 29-31, 1898	Ananda Mohan Bose
15th Session	Lucknow	Dec. 27-29, 1899	Romesh Chunder Dutt
16th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-29, 1900	N.G. Chandavarkar

Pre-Independence Era 1900 – 1947

Session	Place	Date	President
17th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-28, 1901	Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha
18th Session	Ahmedabad	Dec. 28-30, 1902	Surendranath Banerjee
19th Session	Madras	Dec. 28-30, 1903	Lal Mohan Ghosh
20th Session	Bombay	Dec. 26-28, 1904	Sir Henry Cotton
21st Session	Banaras	Dec. 27-30, 1905	Gopal Krishna Gokhale
22nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-29, 1906	Shri Dadabhai Naoroji
23rd Session (Suspended)	Surat	Dec. 26-27, 1907	Rash Behari Ghosh
23rd Session	Madras	Dec. 28-30, 1908	Rash Behari Ghosh
24th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-29, 1909	Madan Mohan Malaviya
25th Session	Allahabad	Dec. 26-29, 1910	Sir William Wedderburn
26th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-28, 1911	Bishan Narayan Dhar
27th Session	Bankipore	Dec. 26-28, 1912	Shri Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar
28th Session	Karachi	Dec. 26-28, 1913	Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur
29th Session	Madras	Apr. 14-15, 1914	Bhupendra Nath Bose
30th Session	Bombay	Dec. 27-29, 1915	Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
31st Session	Lucknow	Dec. 26-30, 1916	Ambica Charan Mazumdar
32nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-29, 1917	Annie Besant
33rd Session	Delhi	Dec. 26-30, 1918	Madan Mohan Malaviya
(Special Session)	Bombay	Aug. 29-01, 1918	Romesh Chunder Dutt
34th Session	Amritsar	Dec. 26-30, 1919	Motilal Nehru
Special Session	Calcutta	September 1920	Lala Lajpat Rai
35th Session	Nagpur	Dec. 26-30, 1920	C. Vijayaraghavachariar
36th Session	Ahmedabad	Dec. 27-28, 1921	Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President for C.R. Das)
37th Session	Gaya	Dec. 26-31, 1922	Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
Special Session	Delhi	Sep. 04-08, 1923	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
39th Session	Belgaum	Dec. 26-27, 1924	M.K. Gandhi
40th Session	Kanpur	Apr. 15-17, 1925	Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
41st Session	Gawahati	Dec. 26-28, 1926	S. Srinivasa Iyengar
42nd Session	Madras	Dec. 26-28, 1927	M.A. Ansari
43rd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 29-01, 1928	Motilal Nehru
44th Session	Lahore	Apr. 16-18, 1929	Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
45th Session	Karachi	Mar. 21-31, 1931	Vallabbhai J. Patel
46th Session	Delhi	April 24, 1932	Amrit Ranchhorddas Seth
47th Session	Calcutta	Sep. 12-14, 1933	Mrs. Nellie Sengupta
48th Session	Bombay	Oct. 24-28, 1934	Dr. Rajendra Prasad
49th Session	Lucknow	Jun. 18-20, 1936	Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
50th Session	Faizpur, MH	Jul. 12-14, 1937	Pt Jawaharlal Nehru
51st Session	Haripura, GJ	Feb. 19-21, 1938	Subhash Chandra Bose
52nd Session	Tripuri, MP	Mar. 10-12, 1939	Subhash Chandra Bose (replaced by Rajendra Prasad)
53rd Session	Ramgarh, JH	Mar. 19-20, 1940	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
54th Session	Meerut	Nov. 23-24, 1946	J.B. Kripalani

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