Birth: He was born on 04,September 1825 at Bombay.
The first ever Asian to be a British Member of Parliament, Dadabhai Naoroji was a pioneer in many fields. He was an intellectual and an educator; he was the first Indian to become a professor at the Elphinstone Institute, Bombay, where he taught mathematics and natural philosophy.
Dadabhai Naoroji was a legendary Indian political and social leader, academician, and intellectual. Famously called the ‘Grand Old Man of India,’ Naoroji hailed from a leading Parsi family in Bombay.
Naoroji was a prominent Indian nationalist and critic of the economic policy of the British Raj in India.
Through his book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India,’ he put forward the ‘theory of drain of wealth,’ which highlighted the exploitation of Indian resources for the benefit of Britain.
He was inducted as a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the Elphinstone College in Bombay in 1855 and with this he became the first Indian to serve an academic position of such repute.
Naoroji concentrated his work on drainage of wealth of India to Britain during the British Raj in India and systematically introduced the ‘Drain of Wealth theory’ to elucidate his perspective.
Remembered as the ‘Grand Old Man of Indian Nationalism,’ Naoroji breathed his last on June 30, 1917.
