Modern history

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1. Bombay 1885 Bonnerjee; Calcutta 1886 Naoroji; Calcutta 1896 Vande Mataram first sung; Banaras 1905 Gokhale; Calcutta 1906 Naoroji and swaraj; Surat 1907 split
2. Lucknow 1916 reunion and pact; Calcutta 1917 Besant; Calcutta special and Nagpur 1920 non-cooperation; Gaya 1922; Belgaum 1924 Gandhi; Kanpur 1925 Naidu; Madras 1927 independence resolution; Calcutta 1928 Motilal; Lahore 1929 Purna Swaraj under Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Karachi 1931 Fundamental Rights and economic programme; Lucknow 1936 and Faizpur 1937 (first rural) Nehru; Haripura 1938 and Tripuri 1939 Bose; Ramgarh 1940 Azad; Meerut 1946 Kripalani
4. Lahore 1929 passed Purna Swaraj, fixed 26 January 1930, and authorised civil disobedience; it did not resolve the Moderate-Extremist rift (1916) or reject the two-nation theory (1940s)