He was of opinion that we should be able to convince the general English public, the working man particularly, that the reforms that I advanced would… - Dadabhai Naoroji

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He was of opinion that we should be able to convince the general English public, the working man particularly, that the reforms that I advanced would be far more beneficial to the English nation, particularly to the working man...If India is prosperous and rich, she would buy far more English produce and give work proportionately to the working man.

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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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Alternative Names: Grand Old Man of India
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Be united, persevere, and achieve self-Government, so that the millions now perishing by poverty, famine, and plague may be saved, and India may once more occupy her proud position of yore among the greatest and civilized nations of the world".

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