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Events on Thursday 31 December 1885 1
1885Indian National Congress foundedDelegates meet in Bombay to found what becomes India's leading nationalist partyThe Indian National Congress held its first session in Bombay from 28 to 31 December 1885, bringing together Indian intellectuals and reformers under the guidance of retired British civil servant Allan Octavian Hume. Initially a forum for moderate political dialogue with colonial authorities, it grew into the principal vehicle of the Indian independence movement in the following decades.