THE RISE AND GROWTH OF THE CONGRESS IN INDIA
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Date
1939
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George Allen & Unwin Ltd
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Authors object in writing this book has been to describe
in a popular form for the general reader the rise and
growth of the All-India National Congress. We
have brought the present volume to an end with the
year I 920, when the Non-co-operation Movement
began, and have thus left over the more recent events
for a second volume if the public interest is sufficient
to demand it.
The official history of the Congress has already
been published in India by Dr. Pattabhi Sitarammayya
at the time of the Congress Jubilee Celebrations
in I935. Our own aim has been to supplement
this very full and well-documented work with a
volume which could be more easily read by the
general public, especially in the vVest. We have also
given much more space to those religious and social
forces in Indian history, during the nineteenth
century, which led up to the birth of the Congress
in the year I885.
After careful consideration we decided to conclude
the present volume with the year I 920 for three
reasons
An entirely new phase of Indian political life
began at this dividing line. The leadership of
Mahatma Gandhi, from this time forward, has
remained very nearly constant.
The events that followed Non-co-operation
in quick succession are too recent for a wholly dispassionate
and objective account to be given of
them. There is an abundance of material ready for
any future historian.