Author: Dinyar Patel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674238206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress, was the first British MP of Indian origin, and inspired Gandhi and Nehru. Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the “father of the nation,” a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself. Dinyar Patel examines the extraordinary life of this foundational figure in India’s modern political history, a devastating critic of British colonialism who served in Parliament as the first-ever Indian MP, forged ties with anti-imperialists around the world, and established self-rule or swaraj as India’s objective. Naoroji’s political career evolved in three distinct phases. He began as the activist who formulated the “drain of wealth” theory, which held the British Raj responsible for India’s crippling poverty and devastating famines. His ideas upended conventional wisdom holding that colonialism was beneficial for Indian subjects and put a generation of imperial officials on the defensive. Next, he attempted to influence the British Parliament to institute political reforms. He immersed himself in British politics, forging links with socialists, Irish home rulers, suffragists, and critics of empire. With these allies, Naoroji clinched his landmark election to the House of Commons in 1892, an event noticed by colonial subjects around the world. Finally, in his twilight years he grew disillusioned with parliamentary politics and became more radical. He strengthened his ties with British and European socialists, reached out to American anti-imperialists and Progressives, and fully enunciated his demand for swaraj. Only self-rule, he declared, could remedy the economic ills brought about by British control in India. Naoroji is the first comprehensive study of the most significant Indian nationalist leader before Gandhi.
Naoroji
Author: Dinyar Patel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674238206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress, was the first British MP of Indian origin, and inspired Gandhi and Nehru. Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the “father of the nation,” a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself. Dinyar Patel examines the extraordinary life of this foundational figure in India’s modern political history, a devastating critic of British colonialism who served in Parliament as the first-ever Indian MP, forged ties with anti-imperialists around the world, and established self-rule or swaraj as India’s objective. Naoroji’s political career evolved in three distinct phases. He began as the activist who formulated the “drain of wealth” theory, which held the British Raj responsible for India’s crippling poverty and devastating famines. His ideas upended conventional wisdom holding that colonialism was beneficial for Indian subjects and put a generation of imperial officials on the defensive. Next, he attempted to influence the British Parliament to institute political reforms. He immersed himself in British politics, forging links with socialists, Irish home rulers, suffragists, and critics of empire. With these allies, Naoroji clinched his landmark election to the House of Commons in 1892, an event noticed by colonial subjects around the world. Finally, in his twilight years he grew disillusioned with parliamentary politics and became more radical. He strengthened his ties with British and European socialists, reached out to American anti-imperialists and Progressives, and fully enunciated his demand for swaraj. Only self-rule, he declared, could remedy the economic ills brought about by British control in India. Naoroji is the first comprehensive study of the most significant Indian nationalist leader before Gandhi.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674238206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress, was the first British MP of Indian origin, and inspired Gandhi and Nehru. Mahatma Gandhi called Dadabhai Naoroji the “father of the nation,” a title that today is reserved for Gandhi himself. Dinyar Patel examines the extraordinary life of this foundational figure in India’s modern political history, a devastating critic of British colonialism who served in Parliament as the first-ever Indian MP, forged ties with anti-imperialists around the world, and established self-rule or swaraj as India’s objective. Naoroji’s political career evolved in three distinct phases. He began as the activist who formulated the “drain of wealth” theory, which held the British Raj responsible for India’s crippling poverty and devastating famines. His ideas upended conventional wisdom holding that colonialism was beneficial for Indian subjects and put a generation of imperial officials on the defensive. Next, he attempted to influence the British Parliament to institute political reforms. He immersed himself in British politics, forging links with socialists, Irish home rulers, suffragists, and critics of empire. With these allies, Naoroji clinched his landmark election to the House of Commons in 1892, an event noticed by colonial subjects around the world. Finally, in his twilight years he grew disillusioned with parliamentary politics and became more radical. He strengthened his ties with British and European socialists, reached out to American anti-imperialists and Progressives, and fully enunciated his demand for swaraj. Only self-rule, he declared, could remedy the economic ills brought about by British control in India. Naoroji is the first comprehensive study of the most significant Indian nationalist leader before Gandhi.
Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
Author: Dadabhai Naoroji
Publisher: London S. Sonnenschein 1901.
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher: London S. Sonnenschein 1901.
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Poverty of India
Author: Dadabhai Naoroji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Essays, Speeches, Addresses and Writings, (on Indian Politics,) of the Hon'ble Dadabhai Naoroji ...
Author: Dadabhai Naoroji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Dadabhai Naoroji
Author: Dadabhai Naoroji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Speeches and Writings of Dadabhai Naoroji
Author: Dadabhai Naoroji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The Grand Little Man of India, Dadabhai Naoroji
Author: Dadabhai Naoroji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Dadabhai Naoroji Correspondence: 30-3-1895 to 5-4-1917
Author: Dadabhai Naroji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
DADABHAI NAOROJI
Author: R P Masani
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
ISBN: 8123021860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book is about Dadabhai Naroji, who presided over the second and two more sessions of the Indian National congress, and spent the greater part of his life espousing the cause of Swaraj for India.
Publisher: Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
ISBN: 8123021860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book is about Dadabhai Naroji, who presided over the second and two more sessions of the Indian National congress, and spent the greater part of his life espousing the cause of Swaraj for India.
Recovering Liberties
Author: C. A. Bayly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139505181
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' liberals influenced, but were also rejected by their opponents and successors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism. Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers – Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx – were received and transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of their own traditions to demand justice, racial equality and political representation. In doing so, Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on the nature and limitations of European political thought and re-examines the origins of Indian democracy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139505181
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the 1900s. This powerful new study shows how the ideas of constitutional, and later 'communitarian' liberals influenced, but were also rejected by their opponents and successors, including Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism. Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the rapidly developing field of global intellectual history, demonstrating that the ideas we associate with major Western thinkers – Mills, Comte, Spencer and Marx – were received and transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of their own traditions to demand justice, racial equality and political representation. In doing so, Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on the nature and limitations of European political thought and re-examines the origins of Indian democracy.