Lucknow Pact of 1916

The Lucknow Session 1916 {presided by Ambica Charan Majumdar) was special in many respects. Firstly, this session brought the moderates and extremists in Congress on common platform again after nearly a decade, particularly due to efforts of Annie Besant.  The Congress President in his address said that “if the congress was buried at Surat, it ..