Committed to factual arguments, Naoroji criticized the economic policies of the colonial government through his drain-of-wealth theory.(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Dadabhai Naoroji reached Bombay (now ...

New biography of the nationalist leader and educationist looks at how the city-s public education system and cosmopolitan character influenced a man who made his own destiny, and impacted that of the ...

When the British government announced in 2014 that it would install a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in London’s Parliament Square, there were complaints in certain quarters that the wrong anticolonial ...

Were early Indian nationalists – people like Dadabhai Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Romesh Chunder Dutt, and Mahadev Govind Ranade – a bunch of staid men with fusty, conservative ideas? A previous ...

Naoroji’s association with Josephine Butler appears to have facilitated further involvement with women’s rights activities in Britain. By the 1890s, for example, he was serving as a vice president of ...

The idea of nationalism and its evolution in British India, undoubtedly, is among the most contested ideas in India’s contemporary political discourse. New political realities seek to overthrow ...

This year, 2022, marks the 130th anniversary of the election, in 1892, of the first person of Indian origin to the House of Commons. On the day Rishi Sunak rose to the prime ministership of Great ...

The Dadabhai Naoroji Awards were meant to celebrate the work of individuals who have furthered UK-India relations in culture, commerce and education. The Dadabhai Naoroji Awards launched and presented ...