Modern Indian History

Bombay 1885 Bonnerjee; Calcutta 1886 Naoroji; Calcutta 1896 Vande Mataram first sung; Banaras 1905 Gokhale; Calcutta 1906 Naoroji and swaraj; Surat 1907 split

• The second Congress session broadens its organisation
• Vande Mataram in the 1896 Congress session
• The Banaras session debates responses to Bengal partition
• The Calcutta session articulates swaraj