Safety Valve Theory
- proposed that Dufferin Hume and moderates set up INC to prevent end of Brit rule
- theory false because
- no evidence
- for Dufferin (1884-88), the moderates weren’t mass leaders. At the same time, he distrusted them.
- WEMC was on path to set up all-india organization after failure of regional orgs. Eg. Native Press Association 1877
- Indian Association 1867 by Surendra Nath Banerjee held all india conference in 1883-85
- ∴ WEMC used Hume, otherwise INC would have been banned
- by not being all indian, they safeguarded themselves from being banned