Who presided over the Social Conference of the Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces) Congress held at Agra in the year 1909 ?

The correct answer is Motilal Nehru.

Key Points

• Motilal Nehru presided over the Social Conference of the Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces) Congress held at Agra in the year 1909.
• The Social Conference was a forum for discussing social reform issues,
  •  emancipation of women
  •  the abolition of child marriage
  •  the promotion of widow remarriage. 
• The 1909 Social Conference was a particularly important one, as it was the first time that the issue of caste had been discussed at the conference.

Additional Information

• Lala Lajpat Rai
  • He was born in a small village named Dhudike in Ferozepur district of Punjab in 1865.
  • He was also known as Punjab Kesari and Lion of Punjab.
  • He was elected as the First President of the All India Trade Union Congress(1920)
  • He formed the Lal-Bal-Pal trio of extremist leaders along with Bipin Chandra Pal and Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
  • He founded Servants of People Society in 1921.
• Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allabahad on November 14, 1889.
  • In 1912, he attended the Bankipore Congress as a delegate and became Secretary of the Home Rule League, Allahabad in 1919.
  •  He had his first meeting with Mahatma Gandhi IN 1916.
  •  He organized the first Kisan March in the Pratapgarh District of Uttar Pradesh in 1920.
  • In 1929, he presided over the Lahore Congress session, where complete independence(Purna Swaraj) for the country was adopted as the goal.
• Romesh Chandra Dutt
  • Sir Romesh Chunder Dutt was born in Calcutta on August 13, 1848.
  • He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1871.
  • He became President of the Indian National Congress in 1899 in Lucknow.
  • His greatest works 
    • ‘India under Early British Rule, 1757 - 1837’ in 1901,
    • The ‘Economic History of India in the Victorian Age’ in 1902.