[1] It followed the work of W.C. Bonnerjee and Dadabhoi Naoroji, who raised India related issues in the British parliament through the support of radical MPs like Charles Bradlaugh.
The Congress was founded in 1885 by Indian and British members of the Theosophical Society movement, including Scotsman Allan Octavian Hume.
[1] William Wedderburn held the same train of thought, since the Government of India was constitutionally responsible to the British electorate.
[1] Congress leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji and W.C. Bonnerjee had been able to enlist the support of radical MP Charles Bradlaugh to take up Indian issues in the British Parliament.
[3] Indian nationalists like Shyamji Krishna Varma castigated what he saw as the timid approach of the Congress's British committee.
Krishna Varma later founded India House with the support of Hyndman and other radical Indian nationalists.