The Indian Association set before itself the aims of creating strong public opinion in the country on political questions and the unification of the Indian people on a common political programme. Branches of the association were opened in other towns and cities of Bengal and even outside Bengal. Soon the Indian Association became the centre of the leading representatives of the educated community of Bengal. It hoped to attract not only the middle classes but also the masses by keeping low membership fee. The Indian Association founded by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876 superseded the Indian League. The Indian League was founded by Sisir Kumar Ghose in 1875 with the object of “stimulating the sense of nationalism amongst the people” and of encouraging political education. In 1851, both the Landholders’ Society and the Bengal British India Society merged into a new one named the British Indian Association. The Bengal British India Society was founded in 1843 with the object of “the collection and dissemination of information relating to the actual condition of the popel of British India and to employ such other means of peaceful and lawful character as may appear calculated to secure the welfare, extend the just rights and advance the interests of all classes of our fellow subjects”, It marked the beginning of an organised political activity and use of methods of constitutional agitation for the redressal of grievances. The Zamindari Association, more popularly known as the “Landholders Society” was founded in 1838 to safeguard the interests of the landlords. Image Source: /wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Revolt1.jpg