The first session of All India Depressed Classes congress was held at __________ in 1930.

The correct answer is Nagpur.

Key Points

• At the Depressed Classes Congress in Nagpur, Dr. Ambedkar presided and delivered a significant speech in which he supported Dominion status, denounced Gandhi's Salt March and civil disobedience movement as inappropriate, but also criticized British colonial misgovernment, with its famines and impoverishment.
• At the second Round Table Conference, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who in 1930 organized the Dalits into the Depressed Classes Association, battled with Mahatma Gandhi over his proposal for separate electorates for the Dalit community.​

Additional Information

• The Dalit Buddhist movement was inspired by Indian jurist, economist, politician, and social reformer Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who also fought against societal discrimination against the untouchables (Dalits).
• Ambedkar popularized the term Dalit by defining all unhappy individuals as Dalits without taking their caste into account.
• To encourage education among the Depressed Classes, he founded the Depressed Classes Institution (Bahishkrit Hitkarini Sabha) in Bombay in 1924.
• Surat:
  • ​Gujarat, a state in western India, contains the city of Surat. Surat literally translates to "face" in Gujarati and Hindi.
  • It was once a sizable harbor and was situated on the banks of the river Tapti close to where it met the Arabian Sea.
  • One of the biggest urban centers in western India, it is currently the commercial and economic hub of South Gujarat.
  • It is a significant hub for the supply of clothes and accessories and has well-established textile and diamond industries.
  • The city is where 90% of the world's diamonds are cut and polished.
  • It is India's eighth-largest city by population and ninth-largest urban agglomeration overall.
  • It is the second-largest city in Gujarat after Ahmedabad. 180 miles (kilometers) north of Mumbai.
• Delhi:
  • ​New Delhi, the nation's capital, is located in Delhi, an Indian city and union territory, which is officially known as the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi.
  • Delhi shares borders with the states of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions as it spans the Yamuna River, particularly on its western or right bank.
  • The NCT is 1,484 square kilometers in size (573 sq mi).
  • The NCT has a population of about 16.8 million while Delhi's city proper had a population of over 11 million as per the 2011 census.
  • The National Capital Region (NCR), which comprises Delhi's urban agglomeration and the satellite towns of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon, and Noida, is home to more than 28 million people, making it the world's largest metropolitan area.
• Kanpur:
  • In India's Uttar Pradesh state's central-western region is the industrial city of Kanpur.
  • Kanpur, which was established in 1207, rose to prominence as one of British India's most significant commercial and military centres.
  • Kanpur served as Uttar Pradesh's financial hub as well.
  • Kanpur, which is located on the banks of the Ganges River, is the ninth-largest urban economy in India and the principal financial and industrial hub of North India.
  • Nowadays, it is renowned for its colonial architecture, parks, gardens, and high-end leather, plastic, and textile products that are primarily sold to the West.