List of Sessions of Indian National Congress before Independence (1885-1947)

 

Sessions of Indian National Congress


The Founding Years (1885-1900)

Date

Place

President

Session

28-30 December 1885

Bombay

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

1st

27-30 December 1886

Calcutta

Dadabhai Naoroji

2nd

27-30 December 1887

Madras

Badruddin Tyyabji (fist Muslim President)

3rd

26-29 December 1888

Allahabad

George Yule (first English President)

4th

26-28 December 1889

Bombay

Sir William Wedderburn

5th

26-30 December 1890

Calcutta

Pherozeshah Mehta

6th

28-30 December 1891

Nagpur

P. Ananda Charlu

7th

28-30 December 1892

Allahabad

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

8th

27-30 December 1893

Lahore

Dadabhai Naoroji

9th 

26-29 December 1894

Madras

Alfred Webb

10th

27-30 December 1895

Pune

Surendranath Banerjee

11th 

28-31 December 1896

Calcutta

Rahimatullah M. Sayani

12th 

27-29 December 1897

Amraoti

C. Sankaran Nair

13th

29-31 December 1898

Madras

Ananda Mohan Bose

14th 

27-29 December 1899

Lucknow

Romesh Chunder Dutt

15th

27-29 December 1900

Lahore

N.G. Chandavarkar

(16th session)








The Pre Independece Era (1900-1947)


Date

Place

President

Session

26-28 December 1901

Calcutta

Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha

17th

28-30 December 1902

Ahmedabad

Surendranath Banerjee

18th

28-30 December 1903

Madras

Lal Mohan Ghosh

19th

26-28 December 1904

Bombay

Sir Henry Cotton

20th

27-30 December 1905

Banaras

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

21st

26-29 December 1906

Calcutta

Dadabhai Naoroji

22nd

26-27 December 1907

Surat

Rash Behari Ghosh

23rd (Session Suspended)

28-30 December 1908

Madras

Rash Behari Ghosh

23rd 

27-29 December 1909

Lahore

Madan Mohan Malviya

24th

26-29 December 1910

Allahabad

Sir William Wedderburn

25th

26-28 December 1911

Calcutta

Bishan Narayan Dar

26th

26-28 December 1912

Bankipore

Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar

27th

26-28 December 1913

Karachi

Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur

28th

14-15 April 1914

Madras

Bhupendra Nath Bose

29th

27-29 December 1915

Bombay

Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

30th

26-30 December 1916

Lucknow

Ambica Charan Mazumdar 

31st

26-29 December 1917

Calcutta

Annie Besant

32nd

26-30 December 1918

Delhi

Madan Mohan Malviya

33rd

29 August - 1 September 1918

Bombay

Romesh Chunder Dutt

Special Session

26-30 December 1919

Amritsar

Motilal Nehru

34th

26-30 December 1920

Nagpur

C. Vijayaraghavachariar

35th

27-28 December 1921

Ahmadabad

Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President for C.R. Das)

36th

26-31 December 1922

Gaya

Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das

37th

4-8 September 1923

Delhi

Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad 

Special session

26-27 December 1924

Belgaum

M.K. Gandhi

39th

15-17 April 1925

Cawnpore

Mrs. Sarojini Naidu 

40th

26-28 December 1926

Gawahati

S. Srinivasa Iyengar

41th

26-28 December 1927

Madras

M. A. Ansari

42nd

29 December 1928 - 1 January 1929

Calcutta

Motilal Nehru 

43rd

16-18 April 1929

Lahore

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

44th

21-31 March 1931

Karachi

Vallabhbhai J. Patel 

45th

12-14 September 1933

Calcutta

Mrs. Nellie Sengupta

47th

24-28 October 1934

Bombay

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

48th

18-20 June 1936

Lucknow

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

49th

12-14 July 1937

Faizpur

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

50th

19-21 February 1938

Haripura

Subhash Chandra Bose

51st

10-12 March 1939

Tripura

Subhash Chandra Bose

52nd

19-20 March 1940

Ramgarh

Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

53rd

23-24 November 1946

Meerut

J.B. Kriplani

54th

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