Calcutta session of INC (1906)

 Swaraj:

                            In Dec. 1906 at Calcutta, the INC under the leadership of Dada Bhai Naoroji adopted ‘swaraj’ as the goal of Indian people.

                           Naroroji in his presidential address declared that the goal of the INC was ‘self government of Swaraj like that of United Kingdom’.

                          The differences between the moderates and the extremists, esp. regarding the pace of the movement and the techniques of the struggles to be adopted,  came to head in 1907 at the Surat Session of the congress where the party split with serious consequences for the Swadeshi movement.