{"id":150906,"date":"2021-12-04T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=150906"},"modified":"2021-12-20T14:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T08:46:51","slug":"dadabhai-naoroji-why-this-nationalist-served-as-a-british-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dadabhai-naoroji-why-this-nationalist-served-as-a-british-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Dadabhai Naoroji: Why this nationalist served as a British MP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Recently, Dinyars Patel’s biography ‘Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism<\/em>‘ won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021.<\/p>\n

Facts about Dadabhai Naoroji<\/strong><\/h5>\n

He was an Indian nationalist, educationist, first Indian MP in British Parliament, an Economist, a mentor and belonged to the Parsi community.<\/p>\n

As an educationist: <\/strong>He began his career as a professor and work towards equality and state-supported universal education.<\/p>\n

As a British MP:\u00a0<\/strong>He used the British institution to fulfil Indian interests. He passed a resolution in British Parliament to bring reforms in the Indian Civil Service.<\/p>\n

As an Economist:\u00a0<\/strong>Dadabhai Naoroji put forward the ‘drain of wealth<\/strong>‘ theory in which he stated that the Britain were draining Indian Economy. He calculated that the British drain one-fourth of India’s revenue every year.<\/p>\n

His theory facilitated alliance with other anti-imperialists and socialists. Karl Marx briefly dabbled with the idea of the drain of wealth. Socialists like Henry Hyndman applied it in their critiques of capitalists.<\/p>\n

As a mentor:<\/strong> He mentored Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Pheozesha Mehta, Romesh Chunder Dutt and other leaders.<\/p>\n

For his contribution, he is described as the \u201cGrand Old Man of India<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Naoroji stuck only to constitutionalist politics, while things changed after World War I. Before the 1920s, advocating self-government for India was a radical idea while this is not the same case after the 1920s. In the 1920s, nationalism changed fundamentally, after the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article “Why this nationalist served as a British MP”\u00a0<\/strong>published in the\u00a0Livemint <\/strong>on\u00a04th December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the news? Recently, Dinyars Patel’s biography ‘Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism‘ won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021. Facts about Dadabhai Naoroji He was an Indian nationalist, educationist, first Indian MP in British Parliament, an Economist, a mentor and belonged to the Parsi community. As an educationist: He began his career as… Continue reading Dadabhai Naoroji: Why this nationalist served as a British MP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10544,10501,8664,8961],"class_list":["post-150906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-dadabhai-naoroji","tag-live-mint","tag-modern-history-personalities","tag-significant-personalities","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":4,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701873631},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}