The Indian National Congress: An Historical Sketch by De Mello, F.M - 1934

Bombay: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1934. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. [iii], 121pp., chapter headings: Trial of the Parliamentary Method, 1885-1904; Success of Constitutional Agitation, 1904-1916; Failure of Mass Action, 1916-1934. 12mo/18.5cm. Printed wrappers, spotted and edgeworn, spine ends chipped, several illegible names on back panel, pencil underlining first nine pages, stamp of "Doaba House/Lyallpur" on front blank and title-page, otherwise clean and tight. Evolution of the Indian National Congress through its several stages of growth and an attempt to evaluate without bias the contributions of leaders such as Hume, Gokhale, Tilak and Gandhi to national progress. Frederick Marion De Mello (1907- ) was also the author of Problems of Rural Reconstruction in India (1934)..