Indian National Evolution : A Brief Survey of the Origin and Progress of the Indian National Congress and the Growth of Indian Nationalism

Contents: Preface. 1. Introductory. 2. The genesis of political movement in India. 3. The early friends of India. 4. The Indian press. 5. The gathering clouds. 6. The clouds lifted. 7. The dawning light. 8. The inauguration and the father of the congress. 9. The first session of the Congress. 10. The career of the Congress.  11. The Surat Imbroglio and the Allahabad convention. 12. The work in England. 13. The Congress : a National Movement. 14. The success of the Congress: unification. 15. The partition of Bengal. 16. The Indian unrest and its remedy. 17. The depression. 18. Reorganization of the Congress. 19. The reconstruction of the Indian Civil Service. 20. Indian representation in British Parliament. 21. Indian in party politics. 22. The educational problems. 23. Indian renaissance. 24. The aim and goal of the Congress. Conclusion. Postscript: India and the war. 27. New spirit and self government for India. Index.

A first person observer’s rare account of the history of the Indian National Congress chronicles the movements leading to its birth in 1885 as well as the multifaceted growth achieved during the first three decades of its political journey upto 1915.

Unlike any other history of the Indian National Congress, it is more than a narrative of what during the initial years the Congress and its organs had planned and accomplished under the colonial impediments. Mazumdar contextualized the Indian National Congress in a wide ranging history of the growth of political consciousness in British India; the most important feature of this historical account is that Mazumdar, being a pre-Gandhian Congress leader, of the first time, put forward the idea that the Indian National Congress was not just a party, it was also a national movement.