Earlier this month, the biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism was released (In the United States and UK by Harvard University Press; and in India by HarperCollins).Dadabhai Naoroji was much more than just a pioneering Indian nationalist, an innovative economic thinker, and the first Asian to be elected to the British Parliament. He was also a proponent of women’s rights in India and Britain, a supporter of certain socialist ideas, and an anti-imperialist of global significance, someone who forged links with Irish home rulers, American Progressives, African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans, and colonized people from around the world.
Given the current extraordinary circumstances, the availability of physical copies in India may be limited, but check for the Kindle edition which should be available shortly.
To supplement the book, Dinyar Patel has collected some resources on Naoroji’s life available on a website: photographs, information on his life and family, some of his correspondence, old newspaper articles, and maps of London and Bombay that show landmarks associated with his life.
The book has been recently reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, and you can read the review here.
