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DADABHAI NAOROJI (1825– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 167 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAOROJI (1825– )  , See also:Indian politician, was See also:born at See also:Nasik on the 4th of See also:September 1825, the son of a Parsi See also:priest . During a See also:long and active See also:life, he played many parts: See also:professor of See also:mathematics at the See also:Elphinstone See also:college (1854); founder of the See also:Rest Goftar newspaper; partner in a Parsi business See also:firm in See also:London (18J5); See also:prime See also:minister of See also:Baroda (1874); member of the Bombay legislative See also:council (1885); M.P. for Central See also:Finsbury (1892-1895), being the first Indian to be elected to the See also:House of See also:Commons; three times See also:president of the Indian See also:National See also:Congress . Many of his numerous writings are collected in Poverty and Un-See also:British See also:Rule in See also:India (1901) .

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