INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Correct Answer is Option 2 i.e Aurobindo Ghosh.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 28 December 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates in attendance. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee of Calcutta was elected president.

Detailed explanation-3: -We are not beggars and our policy is not that of mendicancy. We are ambassadors of our people at a foreign court, to watch and guard the interests of our country and get as much for her as we can.

Detailed explanation-4: -Allan Octavian Hume was the founder of the Indian National Congress. In the 1940s, it played a very important role in seeking independence for India, from British rule.

Detailed explanation-5: -Now, the government resorted to open condemnation of the Congress, calling the nationalists “seditious brahmins”, “disloyal babus”, etc. Dufferin called the Congress “a factory of sedition”. Later, the government adopted a ‘divide and rule’ policy towards the Congress.