Frankenstein’s monster to British: How Surendranath Banerjee transformed Congress into a nationalist organisation

Banerjee’s efforts were so successful that Viceroy Dufferin left India thoroughly upset and disappointed, and wheezed out his hypocritical contempt against an organisation he had himself helped create This is how R.C. It is also a fact that W.C. Bonnerjee later defended Surendranath Banerjee in court in a contempt case but our assessment in this context should stand on the principles of the spirit. Banerjee’s efforts were so successful that Viceroy Dufferin left India thoroughly upset and disappointed, and wheezed out his hypocritical contempt against an organisation he had himself helped create because it was no longer under his control. A foreign journalist noted how the “Congress became…truly national, not in 1885…but in 1886, the year in which Surendranath Banerji joined it.” It was a truly heady period.