200th Birth Anniversary of Dadabhai Naoroji On 4th September 2025, the nation paid tribute to Dadabhai Naoroji on his 200th birth anniversary. He is remembered as the “Grand Old Man of India”, a pioneer socialist, a major nationalist thinker and one of the earliest critics of colonial economic exploitation. Aspect Details Early Academic Role Dadabhai Naoroji became the first Indian professor at Elphinstone College in 1845. INC Leadership He served as President of the Indian National Congress in 1886 at Calcutta, 1893 at Lahore and 1906 at Calcutta. Demand for Swaraj In 1906, he declared the demand for Swaraj, meaning…
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