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The President of the Bombay session of the Indian National Congress in 1915 was:

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Answer: Option B — Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

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The Bombay session of the Indian National Congress in December 1915 was presided over by Sir Satyendra Prasanna Sinha (S. P. Sinha, later Lord Sinha of Raipur).

About the Bombay session (1915):

  • It was held during the First World War.
  • The Moderates were still in control of the Congress, and the Extremists, led by Tilak, had been out of the Congress since the Surat split (1907).
  • At the Bombay session, the constitution of the Congress was amended to make it easier for the Extremists to return to the Congress.
  • The session also discussed the demand for self-government after the war.

About S. P. Sinha:

  • He was born in March 1863 at Raipur, in the Birbhum district of Bengal.
  • He studied law in England and became a barrister.
  • He became a leading lawyer of the Calcutta High Court, and was appointed Advocate-General of Bengal.
  • He was a Moderate, who believed in cooperation with the British government.

He held several high posts in British India:

  • He was made a member of the House of Lords as Baron Sinha of Raipur (1919), the first Indian peer.
  • He served as the Under-Secretary of State for India in the British government (1919-1920).
  • He became the Governor of Bihar and Orissa (1920-1921), the first Indian to become the governor of a province.
  • He helped in the passage of the Government of India Act of 1919 through the British Parliament.
  • He died in 1928.

Other Congress sessions of this period:

  • 1914: Madras (Bhupendra Nath Bose).
  • 1916: Lucknow (Ambika Charan Mazumdar), when the Extremists returned and the agreement with the Muslim League was reached.
  • 1917: Calcutta (Annie Besant).

Why not the other options?

  • ✗Tilak, Malaviya and Ambika Charan Mazumdar were not the President of the 1915 session.

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Remember: Bombay Congress (1915) = S. P. Sinha (later Lord Sinha; first Indian peer; first Indian Governor of a province - Bihar and Orissa, 1920).

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