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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.
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.
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.
Jul 4, 2017 · On 6th July 1892 Dadabhai Naoroji, won a hard fought election, by a whisker, to become the first non-white to be elected to the British Parliament.
May 23, 2018 · Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) was an Indian political leader and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress. A leading nationalist author and spokesman, he was the first Indian to be elected to membership in the British Parliament.
May 12, 2020 · Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism. Winner of the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay–NIF Book PrizeThe definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded...
Aug 25, 2023 · Dadabhai Naoroji, a prominent Parsi intellectual, served as a social leader, educator, and one of India's early politicians. He held the affectionate title of the "Grand Old Man of India." His remarkable achievement included being the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons.
