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Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917), also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India", was an Indian Independence activist, political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who served as 2nd, 9th, and 22nd President of the Indian National Congress from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to 1907.
Dadabhai Naoroji was born to a Gujarati-speaking Parsi family in Bombay, British India. In 1855, he became a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Mumbai’s Elphinstone College. He was the first Indian to hold such a position.
Jul 4, 2020 · Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) is an unfamiliar name these days. Yet, aside from being the first Asian to sit in the House of Commons, he was also the most important leader in India before...
Jun 26, 2024 · Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian nationalist and critic of British economic policy in India. Educated at Elphinstone College, Bombay (now Mumbai), he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy there before turning to politics and a career in commerce that took him to England, where he spent.
Known as ‘The Grand Old Man of India’ Dadabhai Naoroji was a great public figure during 1845 - 1917. Through the innumerable societies and organisations with which he was associated and his contributions to organs of public opinion, he voiced the grievances of the Indian people and proclaimed their aims, ideals and aspirations to the world ...
Jul 9, 2018 · Dadabhai Naoroji was a legendary Indian political and social leader, academician, and intellectual. Let’s take a look at his life history, including his contributions, and the theory of Drain of Wealth, and achievements.
Sep 4, 2019 · September 4, 2019 was the 194th birth anniversary of Dadabhai Naoroji, the “Grand Old Man of India”, who was among the first leaders who stirred national consciousness in the country. Born in 1825 at Navsari, in present-day Gujarat, Naoroji was a prolific scholar with varied interests.
Jul 4, 2017 · Dadabhai Naoroji: First Indian Member of British Parliament. AUTHOR Akshay Chavan. PUBLISHED 04 July 2017. BOOKMARK. On 6th July 1892, he did the impossible. Dadabhai Naoroji, won a hard-fought election, by a whisker, to become the first non-white to be elected to the British Parliament.
Dadabhai Naoroji. (1825—1917) politician. Quick Reference. (b. 4 Sept. 1825, d. 30 June 1917). Indian politician Born in Bombay, he became professor of mathematics in 1854. Naoroji was an ardent social reformer, promoting women's education and criticizing the caste system.
Feb 8, 2021 · Dadabhai Naoroji was the first to establish a causal link between India’s utter poverty and British rule – India bled so that Britain could prosper. Read about Naoroji’s ‘drain of wealth’ theory and how it bolstered the nationalist cause, in this exclusive book excerpt
