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Article: Celebrating the Congress Party centennial. (the Gandhi family of India)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- January 13, 1986
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Celebrating the Congress Party Centennial
IT WAS THE political carnival to end all carnivals, a veritable Cecil B. DeMille production. A cast of several thousands gathered in the last days of 1985 in Bombay, the commercial and industrial capital of India, to commemorate the centenary of the Congress Party. The organization was formed in the city in 1885, thanks to the initiative of none other than an enlightened Englishman, Alexander Octavio Hume.
Few political parties anywhere can lay claim to such longevity. But age is not necessarily a sign of good health. Nor did the man who welded the disparate Congress into a mass movement that evicted the British ...