Political Associations

	Before INC 1885
1836	Bangabhasha Prakasika Sabha	Associates of Raja Rammohan Roy
1838	Zamindari Association/ Landholders Society	Bengal	To safeguard interests of landlords
1843	Bengal British India Society		Collection and dissemination of information relating to actual condition of people of British India and peaceful and lawful character
1851	British Indian Association	Merging of Zamindari Association and Bengal British India Society
1866	East India Association London	Dadabhai Naoroji	To influence in England to promote Indian welfare
1867	Poona Sarvajanik Sabha	MG Ranade	Bridge between Government and people
	Indian Social Conference	MG Ranade and Raghunath Rao	Pledge movement against Child Marriages
1873-74	Poona Sarvajanik Sabha [Poona Public Society]	MG Ranade	Successful campaign among the peasants, as well as at Poona and Bombay against the land revenue settlement of 1867
1875	Indian League	Sisir Kumar Ghosh	Stimulating sense of nationalism among people and political education
1876	Indian Association of Calcutta	Surendranath Benerjea and Anand Mohan Bose	Imp political association before congress Create strong public opinion on political question and unify India on common political programme
1883	India National Conference	Surendranath Benerjea	Merged into INC post its formation
1884	Madras Mahajan Sabha	M Viraraghavachari, B Subramaniya Ayer, P Ananda Charlu
1885	Bombay Presidency Association	Badruddin Tyaji, Pherozshah Mehta, KT Telang
1885	Indian National Congress	AO Hume	Cofounders: Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw E Wacha Surendranath Benerjea and Anand Mohan Bose -Main architects
	United India Patriotic Association	Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rajiv Shiv Prasad Singh of Benares
	After 1885 INC
	Swadesh Bandhab Samiti	Ashwini Kumar Dutta	Mass mobilisation
1916	India Home Rule League	Tilak	HQ: Delhi Maharashtra excluding Bombay; Karnataka, Central provinces, Berar Demands: Swaraj, linguistic states, vernacular education
1916	Home Rule League	Anni Besant	Madras and rest of India including Bombay city George Arundale, B W Wadia, CP Ramaswamy Aiyar
1917	Justice Party Madras/South Indian Liberal Foundation	T. M. Nair and P. Theagaraya Chetty, CN Mudaliar, Panagal’s Raja	To represent non-Brahmins Conflict with home rule movement Demand for communal representation with Montagu Opposition to Noncooperation movement as it lead to anarchy
1920	Indian National Liberal Foundation	Surendranath Benerjea	Since congress was heading for extra constitutional with noncooperation movement and he is a moderate, he left congress and formed
1922	Congress-Khilafat Swarajya	CR Das and Motilal Nehru	Sudden withdrawal of Noncooperation movement by Gandhi Split in congress swarajists vs no changers made swarajists like CR Das and Motilal Nehru to form.
	Congress Nationalist Party	M M Malaviya and Madhav Srihari Aney
1928	Independence for India league	Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Bose	Unhappy over Motilal Nehru report of dominion status to India, formed a new league
1934	Congress Socialist Party	Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan	Not separate from Congress. Socialistic influence. Advocates of non-constitutional struggle
1925	Communist party	M.N. Roy	Evelyn Trent Roy , Abani Mukherji, Rosa Fitingof , Mohammad Ali (Ahmed Hasan), Mohammad Shafiq Siddiqui, Rafiq Ahmed, M.P.B.T. Aacharya, and Sultan Ahmed Khan Tarin
	Royists
1939	Forward Bloc	Subash Chandra Bose	Due to difference with Gandhi that to take advantage of World War II and wage against British
1927	Samata sainik dal (social equity corps )	Ambedkar
	Bolshevik Party of India	N Dutt Mazumdar
	Revolutionary Communist Party	Saumyendranath Tagore

Socio-religious associations

Brahma Samaj	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Bengal
Atmiya Sabha	Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Adi Brahma Samaj	Debendranath Tagore
Brahmo Samaj of India	Keshub Chandra Sen
Indian Reform Association	Keshub Chandra Sen
Sadharan Brahma Samaj
Prarthana Samaj	Atmaram Pandurang, Govind Ranade, RB Bhandarkar	Maharashtra
Paramahamsa Mandali	Mehtaji Durgaram (breaking caste rules, women education)	Maharashtra
Satyashodak Samaj	Jyotiba Phule [Gulamgir Satyadharma](Mali community)	Maharashtra
Lokahitwadi	Gopalhari Deshmukh
Servants of Indian Society	Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Servants of People Society	Lala Lajpat Rai
Social Service League	Narayan Malhar Joshi
All India Trade Union Congress	Lala Lajpat Rai, NM Joshi, D Chaman Lal, Joseph Baptista
Ramakrishna Movement	Ramakrishna Paramhamsa and Vivekananda
Arya Samaj	Dayanand Saraswati	Punjab and North India
Seva Sadan	B M Malabari
Deva Samaj	Shiv Narain Agnihotri
Dharma Samaj	Radhakant Deb (counter to Brahma Samaj)
Bharat Dharma Mahamandala	M M Malaviya, Deen Dayal Sharma, Gokhale Orthodox Hindus opposed Arya Samaj Management of Hindu religious institutions
Radhaswami movement	Tulsi Ram(Shiv Dayal Saheb)
Vokkaliga Sangha	Mysore
Madras Hindu Association	Veerasalingam Pantulu
Justice movement 1916	T M Nair, P Tyagaraja Chetty, CN Mudaliar, Panagal's Raja	Madras
Self-respect movement 1925	EV Ramaswamy(Socrates of South Asia) , Balija Naidu	Madras
Vaikom Satyagraha 1924-25	KP Kesava, K Kelappan (Kerala Gandhi) , EV Ramaswamy	Madras
Aravippuram movement 1888	Sri Narayana Guru [Idol of Siva at Aravippuram]	Kerala
Temple entry movement	P Krishna Pillai, AK Gopalan
Sri Narayana Guru Swamy Dharma Paripalana Movement	Sri Narayana Guru Swamy (Against non-brahmin upper caste)	Kerala
Indian Social Conference/ Indian National Social Conference	MG Ranade and Raghunath Rao Virtually social reform cell of INC � Pledge Movement” to prevent child marriage
Bharat Stree Mahamandal	Sarladevi Chaudhrani
Indian Women Association/ Women India Association	Annie Besant and Margaret Cousins in Madras
Nishkam Karma Math	DK Karve (Improving women's condition)	Pune
Singh Sabha Movement	Khalsa schools
Akali Movement	Liberate Sikh Gurudwaras
Wahabi/Wallilullah	Shah Abdul Aziz, Syed Ahmed Barelvi Wallilullah teachings (harmony among 4 muslim jurisprudence, logic)	Anti British
Deoband movement 1866 (Revivalist liberal)	Mohammad Qasim Nattovi, Rashid Ahmed Gangohi, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Welcomed formation of INC
Aligarh movement 1877	Syed Ahmed Khan Liberal, Scientific, Loyal to British Muslims should educate first and then politics Condemned Polygamy, early divorce and purdah	Loyal to British
Ahmediya movement 1889	Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Universal religion and opposed Jihad Defended Islam from other religious revivalist attacks Himself proclaimed as Messiah and reincarnation of Lord Krishna

Rahanumai Mazdayasanan Sabha	Dadabhai Naoroji, KR Coma, SS Bengalee Improve social condition of Parsis and restore purity of Zoroastrianism Rost Goftar (Truth Teller)	Parsis religious reform
Jati Nirdharani Sabha 1897	Kaivartas (Mahishyas)- Midnapore - Bengal
Mahishya Samiti 1901	Kaivartas (Mahishyas)- Midnapore - Bengal
Widow Remarriage Association	Vishnu Shastri Pandit
Muhammedan Literary Society	1863 by Nawab Abdul Latif. Beginning in the direction of western education. It promoted discussions of religious, social and political questions
Theosophical Society	Helena Blavatsky & Annie Besant Revival of Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism Belief in reincarnation and universal brotherhood, prayer, contemplation

Women organizations

Bharat Stree Mahamandal	1912	Sarla Devi Choudhurani	Female Education
Women India Association/ Indian Women Association	1917	Annie Besant and Margaret Cousins in Madras, Amrit Kaur	Social and educational emancipation of women
All Indian Women Conference	1927		Female education, Women's franchise, inheritance rights
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India	1972	Anasuya Sarabhai
Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (Majadoor Mahajan Sangh)		Anasuya Sarabhai	Female Union Leader
The Aryan Women’s Association		Pandita Ramabai
Mahila Seva Mandal		Savitribhai Phule

Other organizations

Indian Peasants Institute	NG Ranga
Mitra Mela	Secret society by Savarkar and his brother. Later merged into Abhinav Bharat
Abhinav Bharat	Veer Savarkar
Theosophical Society	Helena Blavatsky & Annie Besant
Workers and Peasants Party WPP	All India party by merger of following provincial organizations by 1928 The Labour-Swaraj Party of the Indian National Congress organized by Muzaffar Ahmed, Qazi Nazrul Islam, Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, and others in Bengal in November 1925. Congress Labour Party was formed in Bombay and a Kirti-Kisan Party in Punjab in late 1926 A Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan of Madras -1923. All communists were members of this party basic objective of the WPPs was to work within the Congress to give it a more radical orientation and make it the party of the people‘ and independently organize workers and peasants in class organizations, to enable first the achievement of complete independence and ultimately of socialism
Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (Majadoor Mahajan Sangh)	Anasuya Sarabhai India’s firs female union leader

Revolutionary Group - India House - Veer Savarkar

*16 May 2021

Leaders and Organisations