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Monday, May 20, 2013

Which of the following statements is not true in respect to A.O. Hume?

A. He founded the Indian national Congress.
B. He presided over the Congress annual sessions twice.
C. He was an ornithologist.
D. He was a member of the Indian Civil Service.


Ans. (B) He presided over the Congress annual sessions twice.

Explanation: 

Allan Octavian Hume CB (6 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist (Ornithology is a branch of zoology which deals with the study of Birds.) and horticulturalist in British India. He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, a political party that was later to lead the Indian independence movement. A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian ornithology." 

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