When the Marquis of Salisbury made a remark about me in connection with the Holborn contest, the whole Liberal Party – including our Great Leader – t… - Dadabhai Naoroji
" "When the Marquis of Salisbury made a remark about me in connection with the Holborn contest, the whole Liberal Party – including our Great Leader – the Press, and the National Liberal Club … showed generous sympathy towards me
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About Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji (Hindi: दादाभाई नौरोजी) (September 4, 1825 – June 30, 1917), given the sobriquet, the Grand Old Man of India, belonged to the Parsi community of Bombay (now Mumbai). He was renowned as an intellectual, educationist, a businessman in cotton trading, and as an early Indian political and social leader known as the architect of Indian nationalism. He was the second person of Asian heritage (after David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre) to become a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom representing Finsbury Central (as a Liberal) from 1892 to 1895. He founded the Indian National Congress in association with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha.
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Grand Old Man of India
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More than 20 years earlier a small band of Hindu students and thoughtful gentlemen used to meet secretly to discuss the effects of British rule in India. The home charges and the transfer of capital from India to England in various shapes, and the exclusion of the children of the country from any share or voice in the administration of their own country, formed the chief burden of their complaint.
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