what we can learn from Dadabhai naoroji?
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He played an instrumental role in the formation of the Indian National Congress. He was a member of the Second International.
Naoroji also served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons as a Liberal Party member. He was the first Indian to become a British MP.
Naoroji was a prominent Indian nationalist and critic of the economic policy of the British Raj in India.
Through his book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India,’ he put forward the ‘theory of drain of wealth,’ which highlighted the exploitation of Indian resources for the benefit of Britain.
He brought out the economic adversities faced by India before the English audience and this he made possible by presenting himself as an Imperial citizen.
He said that Indians were either subjects or slaves of the British, which depended on the extent of Britain’s wish to give the institutions already operated by them to India.
He was instrumental in the formation of the ‘London Indian Society’ in 1865. The objective of the society was to discuss Indian social, political and scholarly subjects.
He also helped in setting up the ‘East India Association’ in 1867 that aimed at conveying the Indian perspective to the Britain public etc.