THE GRAND OLD MAN OF INDIA
DADABHAI NAOROJI |
- First Indian College Professor.
Dadabhai Naoroji was the first Indian to be appointed as a Professor at Elphinstone College in
Mumbai.
- Known as the Grand Old Man of India.
- Known as India Gladstone.
- Formed Bombay Association (1852).
- Formed East India Association in LONDON.
- Started Newspaper: Rasth Gofthaar, Voice of India.
- Father Of Indian Politics And Economics.
- Founder of Drain Theory.
- Changed the name "UNION" to"CONGRESS" for Indian National Congress.
- Second President of INC (1886 Kolkatta Session of INC).
- President of 1893 Lahore Session of Congress.
- President of 1906 Kalkatta Session of Congress.
- First time used the word Swaraj by dadabhai Naoroji.
- The word Swaraj is Contributed by Dayananda Sraswati.
- Eldest President of INC (Age: 81).
- First India to be selected to British Parliament..
- First Indian to Calculate National Income.
- Gujarati Professor of London University.
- Known as Indian Unofficial Representative in Britain.
Main Works
- Poverty and Un-British Rule in India,
- The European and Asiatic Races.
- The Wants and Means of India
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