Lord Dufferin

Lord Dufferin (1884-88)

1. Foundation of Indian National Congress (INC) in Bombay (28th December 1885).

2. Third Anglo-Burmese war.

3. In 1886 upper Burma was annexed.

4. Aitchison Committee was appointed to review the Civil Services. It suggested the abolition of the Statutory Civil Services and strengthening of provincial services. But it rejected the demand for simultaneous exams in India to the ICS.

5. Held a garden tea party for the Congress leaders in 1886, when the INC held its second session in Calcutta. But later, he was disenchanted with the policies of the Party and commented that it was a “microscopic minority jumped into the un-known” and called it “annual babu Congress”.