Dadabhai Naoroji: Selected Private Papers

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Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), popularly known as the ‘Grand Old Man of India’, was thrice elected president of the Indian National Congress. In 1892, he became the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons. He was one of the primary advocates of Swaraj, or self-rule, for India. Naoroji’s most lasting contribution to Indian nationalism was his exposition of the exploitative nature of British colonialism through his ‘drain theory’.

In his public life spanning over six decades, Naoroji amassed a voluminous correspondence. While, unfortunately, most of the letters that Naoroji wrote no longer survive, his archival collection contains thousands of letters from political leaders and intellectuals in India, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. This volume includes correspondence with, among others, Behramji M. Malabari, a prominent social reformer; Henry M. Hyndman, founder of the first British socialist party; and William Wedderburn, an early Indian nationalist colleague.

Accompanied by an extensive introduction, these writings open a window to Naoroji’s political career and the broader contours of the early Indian nationalist movement and Victorian politics in Great Britain.

Contents: Preface. Introduction. A Note on Style. Plate Section (between pp. 282 and 283). 1. Aziz Ahmad. 2. Evans Bell and Family. 3. Shankar Abaji Bhisey. 4. George Birdwood. 5. Romesh Chunder Dutt. 6. R.M.H. Griffith. 7. Allan Octavian Hume. 8. Henry M. Hyndman. 9. Behramji M. Malabari. 10. Erskine Perry. 11. Mahadev Govind Ranade and Gopal Krishna Gokhale. 12. Hormusjee Ardeseer Wadya. 13. William Wedderburn. Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.R. Mehrotra

Dr. S.R. Mehrotra (b. 1931) is former Professor of History, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and Jawaharlal Nehru Professor, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. He has also taught at the universities of Saugor, London, Wisconsin, and Rabindra Bharati. He was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and a Visiting Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is the Author of India and the Commonwealth 1885-1929 (1995). The present work was first published in 1971. Professor Mehrotra is currently engaged in writing a second volume on the history of the Indian National Congress, dealing with the period 1919 to 1947, and in editing in collaboration with Professor E.C. Moulton of the University of Manitoba, the papers of Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912)

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Dadabhai Naoroji: Selected Private Papers
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1st. ed.
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9780198076667
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672p.,
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