[55] Mr. Hume was an ex-secretary-of the Government of India who had retired from service.
[56] Sir William Wedderburn is also a retired member of the Government of Bombay, India.
[57] Sir Auckland Colvin was the Lieutenant Governor of the then North Western Provinces (now the United Province of Agra and Oudh).
[58] The quotations from Hume are taken out of W. Wedderburn’s Allan Octavian Hume, the parts enclosed in parenthesis are Wedderburn’s.
[59] These compliments have been renewed of late. The Congress held at Madras in 1914 was attended by the British Governor of the Presidency.
[60] Mr. Hume’s biography by Sir William Wedderburn, p. 62.
[61] Mr. Hume’s biography by Sir W. W., p. 63.
[62] Biography, p. 63.
[63] Swadeshi means country-made, and Swaraj means self-government or self-rule.
[64] The Congress session held at Surat in December, 1907, ended in a split preceded by a disorderly meeting.