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. [...] His kind and considerate treatment of the people of Etawah during the dark days of the mutiny endeared his name througout the Punjab and led the people of the country justly to regard him as a friend and as a rare officer truly worthy of the administration of Clemency Canning. [...] The Hindu Patriot the flukara the Indian Mirror the Amrita Bazar Patrika which was at firstN.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 Somprokash the Nababibhakar the Sulabh Samachar a pice paper the Sanjibani the Sadharani and latterly the Hitavadi and sev [...] 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.