English: Much of the initial Independence struggle was peaceful, led by often hardly remembered Anglicized lawyers like Mr. P. Ananda Charlu , President of the 7th Congress meeting held in Calcutta in 1891, barely 6 years after the party was founded by the British lawyer Sir Alan Octavian Hume among others. A Brahmin from near Hyderabad, he settled in Chennai where he strove for Hindu–Muslim cooperation, also characteristic of the early days of the freedom struggle.