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SITARAMAYYA, B. Pattabhi. The history of the Indian National Congress (1885-1935).

[Madras]. [Printed at the Law Printing House], 1935. First edition.
8vo. xxii, 1038, civ pp. With 12 photographic plates. Original publisher's yellow buckram, lettered in black. Heavily rubbed and marked, boards bowed, spine sunned. Tickets of Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha of Madras and Arthur Probsthain of London to FEP, scattered spotting.
The first edition of a monumental and authoritative history of the Indian National Congress, published by the Working Committee of the Congress on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary.

Established in 1885, the Congress aimed to secure greater involvement in government for educated Indians, and to create a platform for civic and political dialogue between them and the British Raj. In reality, for the first decade of its existence, the body served only as a stage for the ambitions of a primarily Anglo-Indian elite largely unrepresentative of the Indian people, rather than a progressive political party.

The book was reprinted in 1946 to form the first volume of a greatly extended two-volume history of the Congress published under the same title.
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 32182