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'''Lalmohan Ghosh''' (1849 – 18 October 1909) was the sixteenth President of the [[Indian National Congress]] and Bengali [[barrister]] and also Co-Founder of [[Indian National Congress]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bengali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Sengupta, S. Subodh and Basu, Anjali|first=Vol I|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=501}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
He was born in [[Krishnagar]], [[West Bengal]] in 1849, the second son of Ramolochan Ghose, gentleman. After passing the Entrance examination in the first division, Ghosh left for England in 1869 to qualify as a barrister. He was admitted to the [[Middle Temple]] on 19 November 1870 and was [[Called to the Bar]] on 7 June 1873,<ref>Sturgess, H.A.C. (1949). ''Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple'', Vol. 2, p. 572.</ref> joining the Calcutta Bar in that same year. His elder brother [[Monomohun Ghose]] was also a barrister and well known political personality of India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://inc.in/organization/44-Lal-Mohan-Ghosh/profile|title=Lal Mohan Ghosh|last=Indian National Congress|website=inc.in|access-date=2 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514050828/http://inc.in/organization/44-Lal-Mohan-Ghosh/profile|archive-date=14 May 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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== Political career ==<br />
Ghosh was elected president of the Madras session (1903) of the Indian National Congress.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}<br />
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His social and political ideals were derived mostly from the liberal humanism of Victorian England. He strongly believed the importance of Western education for the people of India as a force to unite the people into one nation and he pleaded for compulsory primary education in India in his presidential address at the Madras session of the Congress. Ghosh never thought of a severance of relation between England and India, but he also believed that it was necessary to acquire by constitutional means, rights for Indians to the British type rules of law and justice, to free expression of opinion, to opportunities of trade and service, and to democratic legislative institutions.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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In 1885, Ghosh stood as the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] candidate for the newly created parliamentary constituency of [[Deptford (UK Parliament constituency)|Deptford]], London. Although he was unsuccessful in his attempt, he became the first Indian to stand for election to the British Parliament.<ref>Bose, K. (1991). 'Lalmohan Ghosh and the Emergence of Indian Nationalism' in ''Proceedings of the Indian History Congress''. Vol. 52, p.553.</ref><br />
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== Death ==<br />
Lalmohan Ghosh died on 18 October 1909 in [[Kolkata]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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