Omschrijving
Dadabhai Naoroji, popularly known as the 'Grand Old Man of India', was thrice president of the Indian National Congress, and the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons. This volume brings together for the first time rare private papers, including correspondence, of Dadabhai Naoroji from the National Archives of India.
S.R. Mehrotra was a professor of history at Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla; Jawaharlal Nehru Professor at M.D. University, Rohtak; and a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He is currently co-editing the selected works of Allan Octavian Hume. Dinyar Patel teaches history at the University of South Carolina. He holds a PhD in history from Harvard University, where he completed his dissertation on Dadabhai Naoroji and early Indian nationalism.