Sir Dadabhai Naoroji Dordi

Born: 4 September 1825

Died: 30 June 1917

He also known as the “Grand Old Man of India“ and “Unofficial Ambassador of India” was a British Parsi scholar, trader, and politician who was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Indian to be a British MP, notwithstanding the Anglo-Indian MP David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, who was disenfranchised for corruption.
He was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.
His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention to the draining of India’s wealth into Britain.
In it, he explained his wealth drain theory.
He was also a member of the Second International along with Kautsky and Plekhanov.
In 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg inaugurated the Dadabhai Naoroji Awards for services to UK-India relations.
India Post dedicated stamps to Naoroji in 1963, 1997 and 2017.
He is regarded as one of the most important Indians during the independence movement.
In his writings, he considered that the foreign intervention into India was clearly not favorable for the country.
He is remembered as the “Grand Old Man of Indian Nationalism” Mahatma Gandhi wrote to Naoroji in a letter of 1894 that “The Indians look up to you as children to the father.