Presidential Address to the Twelfth Session
of the Indian National Congress
Calcutta, 1896
by Rahimatulla M. Sayani (1847-1902)
*Introduction*
*1) Origin of the Congress*
*2) Declarations of the Congress Leaders*
*3) Growth of the Congress*
*4) Congress Presidents*
*5) Congress, the Eurasians, the Portuguese, the Jews*
*6) Congress and Mohamedans**7) Congress Programme*
*8) Vicws of Eminent Englishmen on Indian Questions*
*9) British Policy in India*
*10) The Royal Proclamation of 1858*
*11) British Sympathy with Indian Aspirations**12) Syed Ahmad Khan on Indian Agitation*
*13) Congress and Musalmans*
*14) British Sympathy with Musalmans*
*15) Alleged Mohamedan Objections to the Congress*
*16) Answers to Mohamedan Objections**17) Fundamental Principles of Islam*
*18) Muslim Education*
*19) Mohamedan Moral Code*
*20) England and India Compared and Contrasted*
*21) Poverty of India*
*22) British Administration*
*23) Muslims and English Education**24) Lord Welby and Sir Auckland Colvin on Indian Financial Checks*
*25) Famine and Poverty*
*26) Government and Famine*
*27) Stock of Grain in India*
*28) Statistics of the Food-Stock*
*29) Land Revenue*
*30) Agrarian Problem*
*31) Civil and Military Expenditure*
*32) Royal Commission and Apportionment of Home Charges*
*33) Dividing the Council on the Indian Budget*
*34) Tribute to the Dead*