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Financially: All attention is engrossed in devising new modes of taxation, without any adequate effort to increase the means of the people to pay; an… - Dadabhai Naoroji
" "Financially: All attention is engrossed in devising new modes of taxation, without any adequate effort to increase the means of the people to pay; and the consequent vexation and oppressiveness of the taxes imposed, imperial and local. Inequitable financial relations between England and India, i.e., the political debt of ,100,000,000 clapped on India's shoulders, and all home charges also…
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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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Indians were British citizens with a birthright to be free and that they had every right to claim an honorable fulfillment of our British pledged rights....It is futile to tell me that we must wait till all the people are ready. The British people did not -wait for their parliament....Self-government is the only and chief remedy. In self-government is our hope, strength and greatness. I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Parsi, but above all an Indian First.
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