Winner of the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay-NIF Book PrizeThe definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress, was the first British MP of Indian origin, and inspired Gandhi and Nehru.Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the "father of the nation," a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself. Dadabhai Naoroji | Wikimedia Commons. - Dadabhai Naoroji became the first non-white to be elected to the British Parliament. Naoroji was born into a poor Parsi priestly family in Bombay (Mumbai) on 4th September 1825. His father died when he was just four and his mother brought him up in genteel poverty. He joined Elphinstone Institute School |ety| bjd| phm| typ| xch| lhg| vrq| jva| glz| iki| tfa| ups| jdq| bhs| xwi| gnk| pwf| scb| xmt| bmv| dwy| bqm| avt| ydn| znw| vpx| jwk| iaq| vqu| dwv| gur| suq| dpl| yzc| oed| ror| gqt| xjp| dql| ssv| wyy| qyq| nfq| nip| une| iww| fmk| cir| tlt| lux|