Which newspaper wrote the following about the possible future role of the Indian National Congress : ‘... is the nucleus of a future Parliament of our country ... and will lead to the good of inconceivable magnitude for our countrymen’ ?
The Indian Mirror
The words were written by The Indian Mirror — option 1.
About the paper. The Indian Mirror was published from Calcutta and was among the earliest Indian-owned newspapers in English — founded in 1861 with the support of Devendranath Tagore and edited for many years by Keshab Chandra Sen and later by Narendranath Sen. It became a daily in 1871, one of the first Indian dailies in English, and it was closely associated with the Brahmo Samaj and with the moderate nationalist opinion of Bengal.
The context of the quotation. The Indian National Congress held its first session at Bombay in December 1885, with 72 delegates. Indian opinion greeted it with high expectations, and the passage quoted — describing the new body as the nucleus of a future Parliament — captures exactly that hope: not that the Congress would agitate, but that it would grow into the representative institution India lacked. That was the characteristic Moderate view of the first two decades.
| Paper | Detail |
|---|---|
| The Indian Mirror | Calcutta; early Indian-owned English paper; associated with the Brahmo Samaj |
| The Times of India | Founded at Bombay in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce; British-owned in this period, and generally unsympathetic to the Congress |
| The New York Times | An American paper, with no part in the Indian debate of 1885 |
Why option 4 fails. The quotation is a single passage from a single paper, so “more than one of the above” cannot apply. And the tone settles it in any case: an enthusiastic welcome of this kind came from the Indian-owned press, not from the Anglo-Indian papers, which treated the Congress with suspicion from the start.
Other early nationalist papers worth carrying : Amrita Bazar Patrika, Hindu Patriot, Bengalee, The Hindu, Kesari and Maratha, Voice of India and Indian Opinion.
Hence, the answer is The Indian Mirror.
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