Q. “If Hume and other English liberals hoped to use Congress as a safety-valve, the Congress leaders hoped to use Hume as a lightening conductor”. Who said this?
Answer:
Bipin Chandra
Notes: According to Bipin Chandra, “if Hume and other English liberals hoped to use the Congress as a safety-valve, the Congress leaders hoped to use Hume as a lightning conductor”. And as later developments show, it was the Congress leaders whose hopes were fulfilled.