Question

Who was the president of Indian National Congress in 1887?
1. Dadabhai Naoroji
2. WC Bonnerjee
3. Badruddin Tyabji
4. Surendranath Banerjee

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Badruddin Tyabji

The correct answer is Badruddin Tyabji.

• INC was founded on 28^th December 1885 at Gokul Da Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay and was attended by 72 delegates.
• INC was founded by A. O. Hume, a retired civil servant.
• Safety value theory was related to the formation of INC.
• Pattabi Sitaramayya is known as the official historian of INC.
• The name Congress was suggested by Dadabhai Naoroji.

 

Badruddin Tyabji

• Badruddin Tyabji was the first Muslim President of INC.
• He is the third President of INC and presided in the Madras Session of INC in 1887.

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Dadabhai Naoroji (1825 - 1917)

• Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Parsi President of INC (1886, Calcutta).
• He was the first Non-Hindu President of INC.
• Dadabhai Naoroji is known as the Grand Old man of India and Indian Gladstone.
• He is also known as the 'Unofficial Ambassador of India'.
• He was the father of Indian Economics and the father of Indian Politics.
• He was the president of the Calcutta Session of INC in 1906 and the first Indian to demand Swaraj.
• Dadabhai Naoroji was the chief propounded of 'Brain Drain Theory' and 'Drain Wealth Theory'.​

WC Bannerjee

• WC Bannerjee was the first President of INC (1885, Bombay).
• He was the co-founder of INC.
• He was the first person to become the INC president twice (1892, Allahabad Session).

• He famously defended Surendranath Banerjee in a contempt of court case in the Calcutta High Court In 1883.

Surendranath Banerjee

• Surendranath Banerjee was the president of the INC session (Poona Session, 1895 and Ahmedabad Session, 1902).
• He became a senior member of INC.
• He founded the Indian National Association on 26^th July 1876. 

• First foreign president of INC - GeorgeYule (1888, Allahabad).
• First woman president of INC - Annie Beasant (1917, Calcutta Session).
• First Indian woman president of INC - Sarojini Naidu 1925, Kanpur Session).
• First elected president of INC - Subhash Chandra Bose (1939, Tripuri Session).
• The president of INC at the time of independence - J. B. Kripalani (1946, Meerut).
• The first president of INC after independence - Pattabhi Sitharamayya (1948, Jaipur).