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Important Organisations and Founders
A compact, tabular revision of who founded major Indian institutions, freedom-struggle organisations, social-reform movements, banks and parties, with founding years, for CAPF Paper I history and polity
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One screen per section. Cover the right column and test yourself. Founder-and-year pairings are durable static facts. These recur across the history and polity sections and are high-yield for one-mark questions.
| Organisation |
Founder(s) and year |
| Indian National Congress |
A O Hume, 1885 (first session under W C Bonnerjee) |
| Muslim League |
1906, Dhaka |
| Ghadar Party |
Lala Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna, 1913 (USA) |
| Forward Bloc |
Subhas Chandra Bose, 1939 |
| Indian National Army (revived) |
reorganised by Subhas Chandra Bose, 1943 |
| Servants of India Society |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, 1905 |
| Home Rule Leagues |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant, 1916 |
| Swaraj Party |
Motilal Nehru and C R Das, 1923 |
| Movement / body |
Founder and year |
| Brahmo Samaj |
Raja Ram Mohan Roy, 1828 |
| Arya Samaj |
Swami Dayananda Saraswati, 1875 |
| Ramakrishna Mission |
Swami Vivekananda, 1897 |
| Theosophical Society (India) |
H S Olcott and H P Blavatsky; led in India by Annie Besant |
| Prarthana Samaj |
Atmaram Pandurang, 1867 |
| Aligarh Movement |
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan |
| Satyashodhak Samaj |
Jyotiba Phule, 1873 |
| Self-Respect Movement |
E V Ramasamy (Periyar) |
| Organisation |
Founder(s) |
| Anushilan Samiti |
Bengal revolutionaries (early 1900s) |
| Hindustan Republican Association |
Sachindra Nath Sanyal and others, 1924 |
| Hindustan Socialist Republican Association |
reorganised by Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad, 1928 |
| Abhinav Bharat |
V D Savarkar |
| Institution |
Founder / established |
| Reserve Bank of India |
Established 1935 (Hilton Young Commission recommendation) |
| State Bank of India |
1955 (from the Imperial Bank of India) |
| Banaras Hindu University |
Madan Mohan Malaviya, 1916 |
| Aligarh Muslim University |
grew from the college founded by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan |
| Visva-Bharati |
Rabindranath Tagore, 1921 |
| Indian Institute of Science |
endowed by Jamsetji Tata (established 1909) |
| Sabarmati Ashram |
Mahatma Gandhi, 1917 |
| Publication |
Founder |
| Kesari and Maratha |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Young India and Harijan |
Mahatma Gandhi |
| The Hindu |
G Subramania Iyer and others |
| Amrita Bazar Patrika |
Sisir Kumar Ghosh |
| Bande Mataram |
Aurobindo Ghosh / Bipin Chandra Pal |
| Mooknayak and Bahishkrit Bharat |
B R Ambedkar |
| Peg |
Recall |
| Founded the Indian National Congress |
A O Hume (1885) |
| Founded the Arya Samaj |
Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1875) |
| Founded the Servants of India Society |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| Founded the Forward Bloc |
Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Founded the Ramakrishna Mission |
Swami Vivekananda |
| Published Kesari |
Bal Gangadhar Tilak |