Pandit Bishan Narayan Dar (1864 – 19 November 1916) was an Indian politician who served as the President of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

for one term in 1911. Dar belonged to a prominent

Kashmiri Pandit The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region l ...

family from

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

. His uncle Pandit Shambhu Nath was the first Indian Judge of the Calcutta High Court. Dar studied at the Church Mission High School and Canning College in

Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city ...

. Dar went to England where he practised as a lawyer. After his return to India, he joined the

in 1887. He was the President of the United Provincial Conference in 1911 and the President of the

in the same year. In 1914, he was elected as a member of the

Imperial Legislative Council The Imperial Legislative Council (ILC) was the legislature of the British Raj from 1861 to 1947. It was established under the Charter Act of 1853 by providing for the addition of 6 additional members to the Governor General Council for legislativ ...

from the United Provinces.

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Presidents of the Indian National Congress Members of the Imperial Legislative Council of India 1864 births 1916 deaths Kashmiri people Kashmiri Pandits Politicians from Lucknow Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh 19th-century Indian politicians 20th-century Indian politicians {{UttarPradesh-INC-politician-stub