British Committee of the Indian National Congress
The British Committee of the Indian National congress was an organization established in Britain by the
History
The decades following the
In 1888 the Congress recruited an agency in Britain to publicise Indian issues to the British public. Headed by Digby, this organisation arranged public lectures in England and began public distribution of pamphlets highlighting issues in India. In July 1889, a permanent committee was established with William Wedderburn as chairman and William Digby as secretary. Bradlaugh died in 1891, but the British committee of the Congress had been able to establish an Indian Parliamentary Committee pressure group.[1]
In 1903,
Activities
The British Committee published the journal India as an organ for the Congress' views. It also organised public meetings. The influence of its early works resulted in the Indian Councils Act 1892.[1] However, its moderatist approach came in for criticism by politicians like Henry Hyndman, who advocated more radical approaches including "insurrection" and violence.[3] Indian nationalists like Shyamji Krishna Varma castigated what he saw as the timid approach of the Congress' British committee. Krishna Varma later founded India House with the support of Hyndman and other radical Indian nationalists. To counter the India, he began publishing his own radical journal called The Indian Sociologist.[4]
See also
References
Sources
- Fischer-Tinē, Harald (2007). "Indian Nationalism and the 'world forces': Transnational and diasporic dimensions of the Indian freedom movement on the eve of the First World War". Journal of Global History. 2 (3). Cambridge University Press.: 325–344. S2CID 145323846.
- Sen, S.N. (1997). History of the Freedom Movement in India (1857–1947). New Delhi: New Age International. ISBN 8122410499. Archived from the originalon 26 November 2015.
- Owen, Nicholas (2007), The British Left and India, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-923301-4.