Founds the newspaper, The Bengali
Historical person
Surendranath Banerjea Biography
Historical biography and chronological timeline for Surendranath Banerjea, based on 12 World History Database records associated with India.
Chronological biography
1876
Founds the Indian National Association, the first Indian political organisation of its kind
1882
Founds Ripon College in Calcutta
1885
Founds the Indian National Congress
Founds the Indian National Congress
1898
Appointed Congress President, 1st term
Appointed Congress President, 1st term
1904
Appointed Congress President, 2nd term
1905
One of the most important public leaders to protest the partition of the Bengal province
1909
Banerjea supports the Minto-Morley reforms, resented and ridiculed as insufficient and meaningless by the vast majority of the Indian public and nationalist politicians
1921
Appointed Minister of Local Self-Government.
1925
Death of Surendranath Banerjea
Titles and roles
Minister of Local Government · President of Indian National Congress
Record provenance
This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.