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

The publishers are gratified at the ready welcome accorded by the public to the account of the national movement from the pen of one of the oldest of the 'congress veterans. [...] The Hindu Patriot the flukura the Indian Mirror the Amrita Bazar Patrika which was at first an Anglo-Vernacular paper the Brahmo Public Opinion which under the name of Bengal „Public Opinion was subsequently incorporated with the Bengalee the Reis and Rayet the S'omprokash the Nababibhakar the Sulabh Samachar a pica paper the Sanjibani the Sadharani and latterly the Hitavadi and se [...] It would perhaps be no wonder if Indian youths of the present generation who know nothing about the situation in the seventies and eighties of the last century were to regard the above observation as only a prophetic pronouncement of the -presenday condition of the Indian Press clothed only in the language of the past. [...] The transfer of the sovereignty of the country from the Company to the Crown in 1858 therefore led not a few to suppose that a millennium was at last in sight and the change was hailed by the people with a deep sigh of relief ; while the great Proclamation simutaneously issued to the princes and the peoples of26 INDIAN NATIONAL EVOLUTION. [...] The National League was established under the leadeship of Sir Joteendra Mohan Tagore who was then the first citizen in the metropolis and one of the central pillars of the British Indian Association with the quetion of representative institutions for India in the forfront of its programme.