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200th Birth anniversary of Dadabhai Naoroji
December 11 , 2025
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- India celebrated the 200th birth anniversary of Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) in 2025.
- It honours his legacy as a nationalist leader, economic thinker, and social reformer.
- He was born on 4 September 1825 in Bombay and studied at Elphinstone Institute, later becoming the first Indian professor at Elphinstone College.
- Naoroji developed the Drain of Wealth Theory, showing how British rule drained India’s resources through salaries, pensions, remittances, and unequal trade.
- He was a founding member of the Indian National Congress (INC), served as its president in 1886, 1893, and 1906.
- He was the first Indian Member of the British Parliament (MP) elected in 1892.
- He advocated self-government, constitutional methods, and parliamentary democracy, and mentored leaders like Tilak, Gokhale, and Mahatma Gandhi.
- Naoroji co-founded institutions such as the London Indian Society (1865) and East India Association (1866).
- He is remembered as the “Grand Old Man of India” and the “Unofficial Ambassador of India”.
- His 1906 INC presidential address was the first to adopt Swaraj as the national goal.
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