Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji, popularly called the "Grand Old Man of India," was an Indian ambassador. He excelled as a trader, Indian scholar, and politician. Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Indian-Asian member of the British Parliament.

Naoroji was a founder member of the Indian National Congress as well. His book 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' raised awareness of his theory 'DRAIN OF WEALTH' from India to Britain. His beliefs and knowledge were centered on the well-being and prosperity of people everywhere since he was Indian.

Biography

He was born in Bombay. He started teaching mathematics at Elphinstone College in 1855. He was the initial Indian to hold such a position. Later, he was hired by the University College London to teach Gujarati. When he was eleven years old, he wed a Gulbai.

Personal Life and Death of Dadabhai Naoroji

When he was eleven years old, he wed Gulbai. At the age of ninety-one, he died in Bombay on June 30, 1917.

In honor of him, Dadabhai Naoroji Road in Mumbai, Pakistan's Dadabhai Naoroji Road in Karachi, and Naoroji Street in London's Finsbury neighborhood are all named. Naoroji Nagar is also the name of a well-known residential colony for central government employees located south of Delhi. Perin and Khurshedben, his granddaughters, participated in the freedom struggle as well. Khurshedben was detained in 1930 together with other revolutionaries for trying to raise the Indian flag at an Ahmedabad Government College.

Contributions of Dadabhai Naoroji

1. He was a partner in the first Indian Company, Cama & Co., which was founded in Britain.
2. He started his political career in 1874 while serving as the Maharaja of Baroda's Diwan.
3. He founded the London Indian Society 1856 to express his opinions on Indian social, literary, and political spheres.
4. He established the East Indian Association in 1867 to highlight Indian issues in the British forum. This is the first organization with members from several Indian states. Eminent English people respected the institution and supported its efforts to shape Indians' perspectives in the British Council.
5. He was a member of Mumbai's Legislative Council from 1885 to 1888.
6. Together with Dinshaw Wacha and Allan Hume, he founded the Indian National Congress in 1885.
7. Naoroji discovered that it is crucial to research Anglo-Indian trade to prevent the rash rejection of emerging industries due to8 the biased valuation of goods and services. By allowing India's industry to expand, change, and advance, Britain may benefit from both the rise in Indian demand for British products and the tax revenue it receives. As a result, he explained to the British the economic difficulties that Indians faced in his capacity as an Imperial Citizen.
8. He claimed that Indians were either subjects of the British or were enslaved, depending on how important it was to Britain for India to have the connections that they already had.
9. He won an election for the Liberal party in Finsbury Central in 1892.
10. Due to his drain argument, a Royal Commission on Indian Expenditures was established in 1896. As a member of the commission, he examined India's financial obligations.
11. He provided statistical evidence to support his drain hypothesis in many articles and speeches 1858. He was the first politician to employ statistics.
12. Dadabhai presided over the Congress in 1886, 1893, and 1906.
13. He established the Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha in 1851 to advance the Zoroastrian faith. In Mumbai, this association is still active.
14. A moderate leader, Dadabhai Naoroji had a powerful voice when opposing British policy in India.
15. Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Mahatma Gandhi looked up to Dadabhai as mentors.
16. The Dadabhai Naoroji Awards for contributions to India-United Kingdom relations were established in 2014 by UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Dadabhai Naoroji Works

• Because it discussed the riches siphoned off during British rule, "Poverty and Un-British Rule in India" became a controversial book.
• The Manners and Customs of the Parsees was published in 1864 in Bombay.
• He founded the Anglo-Gujarati newspaper Rast Goftar in 1854.
• He also gave admission to educated natives for the Indian Civil Service (London, 1868).
• Additionally, he published The Wants and Means of India in London in 1876 and The Condition of India in Madras in 1882.

Conclusion

Dadabhai Naoroji expressed the benefits of giving Indians equal work opportunities, the wealth drains from India, and the country's industrialization while he served in the British Parliament. He was a member of the Second International and played a significant role in creating the Indian National Congress. He also made a personal effort to improve Indian society. One economist, Naoroji, improved the Indian economy through many actions and tactics. Dadabhai had the vision and the goal of improving the financial and educational systems all across the world. As a result, he is referred to as the "Unofficial Ambassador of India."