Question

The interpretation of word ‘Swaraj’ kept on changing during course of the Indian freedom struggle. But who presided over Calcutta session of the Congress in 1906 and declared its goal as ‘Swaraj’ for the first time?

• A. a) B.G Tilak
  
  
• B. b) Rash Behari Ghosh
  
  
• C. c) G.K Gokhale
  
  
• D. d) Dadabhai Naoroji

Answer 1

The correct option is D d) Dadabhai Naoroji

d)
In 1906, the Indian National Congress at its Calcutta Session, presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji, took a major step forward. Naoroji in his presidential address declared that the goal of the Indian National Congress was ‘self-government or Swaraj’ like that of the United Kingdom or the Colonies.