Dadabhai Naoroji (4
September 1825 – 30 June 1917), known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual,
educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader. He
was a member of parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between
1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be
a British
MP.
Naoroji is also credited with the founding of the Indian
National Congress, along with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw
Edulji Wacha. His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought
attention to the draining of India's wealth into Britain. He was also member of
the Second
International along
with Kautsky and Plekhanov.
This first day cover commemorates Dadabhai
Naoroji’s 138th
Birth Anniversary.
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