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Naoroji
The First Asian MP
by
Omar Ralph
price:
UK pounds £11.95
US dollars
$19.00
Paperback 208 pp illustrated
976 8163 05 4 |
A Biography Of Dadabhai Naoroji - Indian Patriot And
British Liberal.
Known As The "Grand Old Man Of India", Dadabhai
Naoroji became Britain's first non-European Member of Parliament.
Berated
by the then Prime minister, Lord Salisbury, as unelectable on account of
his being a "black man", Naoroji proved his foremost critic
wrong by being elected to the London seat of Central Finsbury in 1892. |
