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Naoroji – Pioneer of Indian Nationalism by Dinyar Patel, 2020. ISBN:9780674238206

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. Naoroji is the first comprehensive study of the most significant Indian nationalist leader before Gandhi.

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. Only self-rule, Naoroji declared, could remedy the economic ills brought about by British control in India.

(This book is gifted to FIRES by the author Dinyar Patel who is the co-chair of FEZANA Research & Preservation Committee)

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