INC Sessions

The Founding Years (1885-1900)

Session		Place	Date	President	Total No. of Delegate
	1st Session	Bombay	Dec. 28-30, 1885	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	72
	2nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 27-30, 1886	Dadabhai Naoroji	434
	3rd Session	Madras	Dec. 27-30, 1887	Badruddin Tyabji	607
	4th Session	Allahabad	Dec, 26-29, 1888	George Yule	1248
	5th Session	Bombay	Dec. 26-28, 1889	Sir William Wedderburn	1889
	6th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-30, 1890	Pherozeshah Mehta	677
	8th Session	Allahabad	Dec. 28-30, 1892	Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee	625
	10th Session	Madras	Dec. 26-29, 1894	Alfred Webb	1163
	11th Session	Poona	Dec. 27-30, 1895	Surendranath Banerjee	1584
	12th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 28-31, 1896	Rahimatullah M. Sayani	784
	13th Session	Amraoti	Dec. 27-29, 1897	C. Sankaran Nair	692
	14th Session	Madras	Dec. 29-31, 1898	Ananda Mohan Bose	614
	15th Session	Lucknow	Dec. 27-30, 1899	Romesh Chunder Dutt	739
	16th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-29, 1900	N.G. Chandavarkar	567
	7th Session	Nagpur	Dec. 28-30, 1891	P. Ananda Charlu	812
	9th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-30, 1893	Dadabhai Naoroji	867

The Pre Independence Era (1900-1947)

Session		Place	Date	President	Total No. of Delegate
	17th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-28, 1901	Dinshaw Eduljee Wacha	896
	18th Session	Ahmedabad	Dec. 28-30, 1902	Surendranath Banerjee	471
	19th Session	Madras	Dec. 28-30, 1903	Lal Mohan Ghosh	538
	20th Session	Bombay	Dec. 26-28, 1904	Sir Henry Cotton	1010
	21st Session	Benares	Dec. 27-30, 1905	Gopal Krishna Gokhale	757
	22nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-29, 1906	Dadabhai Naoroji	1663
	23rd Session	Surat	Dec. 26-27, 1907 approx	Rash Behari Ghosh	1600
	23rd Session (contd.)	Madras	Dec. 28-30, 1908	Rash Behari Ghosh	562
	24th Session	Lahore	Dec. 27-29, 1909	Madan Mohan Malaviya	243
	25th Session	Allahabad	Dec. 26-29, 1910	Sir William Wedderburn	636
	26th Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-28, 1911	Bishan Narayan Dar	446
	28th Session	Karachi	Dec. 26-28, 1913	Nawab Syed Mohammed Bahadur	349
	30th Session	Bombay	Dec. 27-29, 1915	Satyendra Prasanna Sinha	2259
	31st Session	Lucknow	Dec. 26-30, 1916	Ambica Charan Mazumdar	2298
	32nd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 26-29, 1917	Annie Besant	4967
	(Special Session)	Bombay	Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1918	Syed Hasan Imam	3845
	33rd Session	Delhi	Dec. 26-31, 1918	Madan Mohan Malaviya	4865
	34th Session	Amritsar	Dec. 26-30, 1919	Motilal Nehru	7031
	35th Session	Nagpur	Dec. 26-31, 1920	C. Vijayaraghavachariar	14582
	36th Session	Ahmedabad	Dec. 27-28, 1921	Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President for C.R. Das)	4728
	37th Session	Gaya	Dec. 26-31, 1922	C.R. Das	3248
	(Special Session)	Delhi		Abul Kalam Azad	0
	39th Session	Belgaum	Dec. 26-27, 1924	M.K. Gandhi	1844
	40th Session	Kanpur	Dec. 26-28, 1925	Shri B.K. Hariprasad	2688
	41st Session	Gauhati	Dec. 26-28, 1926	S. Srinivasa Iyengar	3000
	42nd Session	Madras	Dec. 26-28, 1927	M.A. Ansari	2711
	43rd Session	Calcutta	Dec. 29, 1928-Jan. 1, 1929	Motilal Nehru	5221
	45th Session	Karachi	Mar. 29-31, 1931	Vallabbhai J. Patel	0
	46th Session	Delhi	Apr. 24, 1932 (Banned)	Ranchod Lal Amrit Lal	0
	47th Session	Calcutta	March, 1933 (Banned)	Nellie Sen Gupta	0
	48th Session	Bombay	Oct. 24-28, 1934	Rajendra Prasad	0
	51st Session	Haripura	Feb. 19-21, 1938	Subhash Chandra Bose	0
	52nd Session	Tripuri	Mar. 10-12, 1939	Subhash Chandra Bose	2285
	53rd Session	Ramgarh	Mar. 19-20, 1940	Abul Kalam Azad	0
	54th Session	Meerut	Nov. 23-24, 1946	J.B. Kripalani	0