THE GREAT OLD

MAN OF INDIA
DADA BHAI NAOROJI
CONTRIBUTION
 Dadabhai naoroji was parsi Indian political and social
leader. He was the first Asian to be a member of
British parliament. Naoroji was a prominent figure
and play a significant role in Indian national
movement.
 In 1866, Dadabhai Naoroji founded in London the
East Indian Association for propagating the cause of
India. Amongst the British and Indian nationals who
joined the association was Womesh Chandra
Bonnerjee who later became the first President of the
INC.
 He was the founder of, Indian national congress,
along with A.O. hume and dinshaw wacha.
Naoroji was an economic critic and his work on
economic exploitation gave a boost to Indian national
movement and unmasked the real face of imperial rule.
He proposed Indianisation of the bureaucracy,
separation of powers of the executive and judiciary and
greater representation of Indians in the House of
Commons.
Some historians use the term, economic colonialism,
for the first phase of Indian national movement (1885-
1905) on the basis on revelations by dadabhai naoroji.
During his stay in Britain in the 1860s, Naoroji’s most
significant contribution was his work on Indian poverty
and the drain of wealth India suffered under British
imperialism.
Around one-fourth of India’s revenues went out of the
country and added to the resources of England.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, Naoroji was
openly calling for self-government which according to
him was the only option to stop the drain of wealth
through the creation of a civil service dominated by
Indians.
Naoroji repeated what he had been
propagating in England: ‘the all-encompassing
issue of Indian poverty is due the unnatural
and suicidal system of administration.’
He edited 'Rast Goftar' (Speaker of the Truth).
He started the magazine 'Dharam Marg
Darshak'.
He wrote the book 'Poverty and Unbritish Rule
in India'.
His unearthing of colonial economic
exploitation is the most important
contribution to Indian national movement.
In his book, poverty and unbritish rule in
India, he exposes the economic
exploitation of India under British rule.
He present, drain of wealth theory, which
refers to unilateral transfer of wealth from
India to Britain resulting in widespread
poverty and severe famines.
The use of word, unbritish, in title of book
refers to exploitive nature of British rule in
India which was not the case in Britain,
where it was progressive.
DRAIN THEORY
He explained how India's wealth was being taken away
to England by the following methods:

Salaries payable to the members of the India Council

Dispatch of savings to England by British personnel
posted in India
Pensions to British officers
Payments to the War Office for the maintenance of
British troops in India
Profits of the British Trading Agencies
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