Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji

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Dadabhai Naoroji Profile

  • Name:
  • Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Other Name:
  • Grand Old Man of India
  • Died:
  • June 30, 1917
  • Father:
  • Naoroji Palanji Dordi
  • Mother:
  • Maneckbai
  • Spouse:
  • Gulbai
  • Education:
  • College Education

  • Hobbies:
  • Writing

Dadabhai Naoroji Biography

Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian political leader and educationist. He was called as Grand Old Man of India. He served as the Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons from the year 1892 and 1895. He founded Indian National Congress together with A. O. Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha.

 

He was born on 4th September 1825. He became the Professor of Elphinstone Institutions in the year 1850. On 1st August 1851 he founded Rahnumae Mazdayasne Sabha. He started the journal Rast Goftar in 1854. He was teaching Philosophy and Mathematics in Mumbai and went to Britain in 1855 and established the first Indian Company there, Cama & Co.

 

He started his company Naoroji and Co. to trade cotton in 1859 and then joined as a professor at University College of London. He played a prominent role in establishing the East India Association and through this checked the moves of Ethnological Society of London. He was appointed as the Prime Minister of Baroda in the year 1874 and later was elected as the member of the Legislative Council of Mumbai in which he served from 1885 to 1888.

 

When Sir Surendranath Banerjee founded Indian National Association, he joined that as a member and later this merged into Indian National Congress. Dadabhai Naoroji became the President of Congress in the year 1886. In the year 1901, he published the book, Poverty and un-British Rule in India.

 

He went to Britain and was elected from the Finsbury Central constituency as a Liberal Party candidate in the 1892 general election. He was assisted by Muhammed Ali Jinnah in his political campaigns. He became the president of Indian National Congress in 1906. He married Gulbai at the age of eleven.

 

He served as the mentor of both Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Some of his works include The Manners and Customs of the Parsees, The European and Asiatic Races, Admission of Educated Natives into the Indian Civil Service, The Wants and Means of India, Condition of India, etc. He died on 30th June 1917 when he was 92 years old. Dadabhai Naoroji Road in Mumbai is named after him. 

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Updated: January 06, 2012

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