National Indian Congress Early Petitions
The National Indian Congress (NIC) submitted petitions and organized protests against legislation introduced that was discriminatory. Many of the earliest petitions are readily available as they were authored when Gandhi was the secretary of the organization and all of his works are available in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi.
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