The Indian National Congress is the nationalist political party, founded by both Indian and English elites in 1885, that spearheaded the push for Indian independence. During the early 1900s, when Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj, the Indian National Congress became increasingly divided between a moderate faction, which proposed petitioning the English government for change through its legal system, and an extremist faction, which favored violent rebellion. After independence, the Congress went on to rule India for many decades, and it remains one of the nation’s dominant political parties to this day.
Indian National Congress Quotes in Hind Swaraj
The Hind Swaraj quotes below are all either spoken by Indian National Congress or refer to Indian National Congress. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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You are impatient. I cannot afford to be likewise. If you will bear with me for a while, I think you will find that you will obtain what you want. Remember the old proverb that the tree does not grow in one day. The fact that you have checked me, and that you do not want to hear about the well-wishers of India, shows that, for you at any rate, Home Rule is yet far away. If we had many like you, we would never make any advance. This thought is worthy of your attention.
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Chapter 20
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What, then, would you say to both the parties?
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Indian National Congress Term Timeline in Hind Swaraj
The timeline below shows where the term Indian National Congress appears in Hind Swaraj. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: The Congress and its officials
...newspaper editor: to express, change, and critique popular sentiment. He explains that the Indian National Congress formed out of a desire for home-rule, but the reader points out that a group...
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...to properly rule himself as an individual. In fact, he argues, Indians should respect the Congress’s founders. These include the influential scholar and statesman Dadabhai Naoroji, who seriously advanced the idea...
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The reader asks how the Congress created the foundation for home-rule. The editor explains that the Congress brought all different kinds...
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Chapter 2: The Partition of Bengal
...British with courage. Indeed, the nationalist spirit is spreading fast, all over India. However, the Congress is also growing divided between moderate and extremist groups.
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Chapter 11: The condition of India (cont.): lawyers
...out that lawyers have fought for independence, defended the poor, and supported the Indian National Congress. The editor agrees that many lawyers have done good, but argues that this is not...
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Chapter 20: Conclusion
...that the editor’s beliefs are a middle ground between the extremists and moderates in the Congress. But the editor rejects this simplistic division and says that anyone can listen to and...
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