Farouk Gulsara
under Television
under Television
The other side of history!
We were taught that MK Gandhi and his brand of passive resistance eventually earned Indians their independence. The truth of the matter is much different from that. A British pro-India civil servant, Allan Octavian Hume, mooted the idea of a pan-Indian nationalist organisation in 1883. The Indian National Congress held its first session in 1885 in Bombay. Initially, like-minded individuals came together to propose reforms in British India. Over time, two factions began to emerge: the loyalists,..