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Dadabhai Naoroji

1825–1917

How Dadabhai Naoroji is discussed in this archive

Authored 1 work in the archive.

Referenced in 13 other works — including Nani Palkhivala: Education, Leadership, and Vision of Free India , EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP AND VISION OF A FREE INDIA , and The Moderate Liberalism of “Ferocious Mehta” .

In EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP AND VISION OF A FREE INDIA : Dadabhai Naoroji is the central subject of the Naoroji Award acceptance speech, portrayed as a pioneer of free and female education whose secular vision of independent India Palkhivala invokes as the standard against which post-independence reality is measured.

In GG Agarkar : Modern Indian Liberal and Reformer : Dadabhai Naoroji is named as one of the moderate figures of the Maharashtra liberal tradition that contextualises Agarkar's emergence.

In GG Agarkar- Modern Indian Liberal and Reformer : Dadabhai Naoroji is listed among the moderate liberal figures whose tradition contextualises Agarkar's more radical social reform agenda.

In G.G. Agarkar : Revisiting a Misunderstood Legacy : Dadabhai Naoroji is cited alongside Justice Ranade as one of the Indian thinkers who devised ways of stimulating Indian industries without violating economic laws, whose voices fell on deaf ears of the British.

In Homi Mody’s Liberalism: From Pro-Business to Pro-Market : Dadabhai Naoroji is cited as a liberal predecessor who propounded the drain of wealth theory, illustrating the colonial-era liberal tradition of economic nationalism that Homi Mody's generation inherited.

By Dadabhai Naoroji (1)

Mentioned in (14)

Primary works (1)

  • EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP AND VISION OF A FREE INDIA · 1998
    • "In the Naoroji tribute, Palkhivala portrays the Grand Old Man as a pioneer of free and female education who personally went door-to-door persuading families to let girls learn the three Rs." — Naoroji depicted as active educational reformer and the inspiration for the award Palkhivala accepts
    • "He calls for moral leadership in education, grounded in courage, intellectual integrity, and a sense of values, and salutes the Bombay University tradition of Naoroji, Mehta, Ranade, Tilak, and Gokhale." — Naoroji positioned as founding figure of a distinguished Bombay liberal intellectual tradition

Opinion pieces (8)

Excerpts (5)

  • Lokmanya Tilak : A Conservative Liberal?
    • "The ‘moderate’ leadership in the late 19th century included Gopal Krishna Gokhale, M.G Ranade, Dadabhai Naoroji, Pherozeshah Mehta" — situates Naoroji within the constellation of moderate liberals against whom Tilak's distinctiveness is measured
  • Minoo Masani: Old Liberalism & New Liberalism
    • "Its leaders were Dadabhai Naoroji, Ranade, Gokhale, Ram Mohan Roy, Surendra Nath Bannerjee" — Masani names Naoroji as the preeminent leader of old Indian liberalism
    • "I remember as a boy playing around the feet of Dadabhai Naoroji at Versova where he was a neighbour of ours." — personal memory establishing Masani's direct connection to the old liberal tradition Naoroji embodied
  • Nani Palkhivala’s Publications to Serve Public Education | M.R. Pai
    • "Dadabhai Naoroji to political subjects like dismissal of a Governor, to budgets and musings on life." — Naoroji cited as one of the historical figures Palkhivala reflected on in his collected articles
  • Sharad Joshi on Liberalism in India
    • "In their writings, they trace the beginnings of liberalism to J.S. Mill and Adam Smith and of Indian liberalism to Dadabhai Naoroji, Gokhale, Raja Rammohan Roy, Narmad, Phule, Agarkar, et al." — Joshi names Naoroji as part of the canonical roster of Indian liberal precursors
  • Nani Palkhivala: Education, Leadership, and Vision of Free India
    • "Dadabhai Naoroji's vision of a free India was the vision of an enlightened and well-educated society" — opening of Palkhivala's Naoroji Award acceptance speech; Naoroji's educational liberalism as the frame
    • "Dadabhai was a great pioneer in the promotion of female education" — Palkhivala's tribute to Naoroji's gender-equality agenda