Social Conference

The Social Conference was an Indian social-reform organization founded as a complementary movement to the Indian National Congress, focused on tackling caste reform and other social issues rather than political matters. Its members clashed with orthodox factions within the Congress, and it was driven from Congress grounds in 1895 by opponents of reform led by Tilak.

Claims that use this term

• The National Congress and the Social Conference began as complementary wings
• The Indian National Congress was once twinned with a Social Conference tackling caste reform.
• The Indian National Congress and Social Conference were founded as twin movements
• Congress politicians actively crushed the rival Social Conference movement through hostility
• Tilak’s anti-reform allies drove the Social Conference from Congress grounds in 1895