What was Gandhi’s assessment of Indian National Congress and British political institutions in Hind Swaraj?

In the Hind Swaraj Gandhi makes an assessment of the Indian National Congress from its inception till 1909. Chapters 1-3 and part of Chapter 20 is devoted to this subject. To the Reader’s assertion that the young in India are indifferent to the Congress as they think of it as an instrument for perpetuating British rule and the need to abandon the constitutional mode of agitation, and to adopt violence, Gandhi points out that despite its inadequacies, the Congress was the first institution that has “enthused us with the idea of nationality”. It has brought together Indians from different parts of India and has insisted that the “Nation should control revenue and expenditure” and “has always desired self government after the Canadian model” and has given us “a foretaste of Home Rule”. It would be improper to be dismissive of the Congress as that would “retard the fulfilment” of the final object of attaining true swaraj.

Gandhi pays tribute to Dadabhai Naoroji as the “Father of the Nation” and the “author of Nationalism and that his drain theory has taught us how the “English had sucked our life blood. Gokhale’s embrace of poverty is out of his sense of patriotism and Tyabji “through the Congress, sowed __________ _______ _____ _____ ____ ______ ___ _______ ___.
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