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Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917), known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader. He was a Liberal Party member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Indian to be a British MP,[1][2] notwithstanding the Anglo-Indian MP David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, who was disenfranchised for corruption.
Naoroji is also credited with the founding of the Indian National Congress, along with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India[2] brought attention to the draining of India's wealth into Britain. He was also a member of the Second International along with Kautsky and Plekhanov .
In 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg inaugurated the Dadabhai Naoroji Awards for services to UK-India relations.[3]
India Post dedicated a stamp to Naoroji on 29 December 2017, on the occasion of his 100th death anniversary.[4][5
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Dadabhai Naoroji ,the Grand Old Man of India, , was the principal Indian nationalist and critic of the British economic exploitation of India. He was born in Parsi (Zorostrian) family in Bombay. Parsi had fled from Persia in the seventh century to escape tremendous conversion in Islam and established a colony in Bombay where he succeeded through trade with British and Portuguese.
This background was helpful for Nauroji, because he spent most of his adult life in Great Britain and established that country's first Indian business company. He was also the first Indian (actually, the first Asian) to be elected to the British Parliament. Upon taking his seat, he swore on the book of Avesta (Zoroastrian texts) instead of the Bible.
Nauroji was educated in Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Elphinstone College and was taught there before moving to Great Britain in 1855. In Britain, he worked as a businessman and joined politics and became Professor of Gujrati at the University of London University College. Nauroji continued to travel between Britain and India and remained active in Indian politics, served as the Prime Minister of the State of Baroda (one of the Indian principals) and member of the legislative council of Bombay. Nouroji founded the Indian National Association, which later merged with the Indian National Congress (INC) and served as the Chairman of the INC three times.
He urbanized the drain theory, which alleged that Britain was removing money and resources from India to Britain. To collect evidence of this theory, he investigated the import and export data for India for 37 years and demonstrated that there was an annual discrepancy of about $ 135 million in favor of Britain. Although the economic exploitation of the colonies was a common practice at that time (in reality, the main reason for such exploitation was the reason why countries acquired the colonies), Naroji continued to write and spoke against it, the British self-image that Appealed to appease the country as "Fair Play."
Naoroji died in 1917 but left the legacy of influence which touched such great Indian figures as Mahatma Gandhi.