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200th birth anniversary of Dadabhai Naoroji
September 9 , 2025
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- Dadabhai Naoroji was born on 4 September 1825.
- He was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament in 1892 from the Finsbury Central constituency in London.
- He founded the Rahnumai Mazdayasan Sabha in 1851 to reform the Parsi community.
- He launched the Gujarati newspaper Rast Goftar (The Truth-Teller) in 1854.
- He was the first Indian graduate of Elphinstone College in 1845 and became its first Indian professor in 1854.
- He founded the Literary and Scientific Society in 1848 and by 1849 started six schools for women in Bombay.
- Naoroji served briefly as Dewan (chief minister) of Baroda in August 1874 but resigned within a month.
- He established Dadabhai Naoroji and Company, a cotton trading firm in England, after working at Cama and Company.
- He founded the East India Association in London in 1867 to present India's case before British lawmakers.
- His economic critique, called the Drain Theory, used official data to show how British rule drained India’s wealth.
- Naoroji authored "Poverty of India" in 1876 and "Poverty and Un-British Rule in India" in 1901.
- He was three times president of the Indian National Congress in 1886, 1893, and 1906.
- Naoroji attended the Socialist International Conference in Amsterdam in 1905 at the age of 80.
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