(C) Lord Duffer in served as the Governor-General of India and Viceroy from 1884 to 1888. On 28 December, 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuld as Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay,with 72 delegates in attendance. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary,and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee of Calcutta was elected President.