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Dadabhai Naoroji
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“The former rulers were like butchers hacking here and there, but the English with their scientific scalpel cut to the very heart, and yet, lo! there is no wound to be seen, and soon the plaster of the high talk of civilization, progress, and what not, covers up the wound! The English rulers stand sentinel at the front door of India, challenging the whole world, that they do and shall protect India against all comers, and themselves carry away by a back-door the very treasure, they stand sentinel to protect.”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She made me what I am.”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indians were British citizens with a birthright to be free and that they had every right to claim an honorable fulfillment of our British pledged rights....It is futile to tell me that we must wait till all the people are ready. The British people did not -wait for their parliament....Self-government is the only and chief remedy. In self-government is our hope, strength and greatness. I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Parsi, but above all an Indian First.”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1904 Dadabhai demanded "SWARAJ" Self Government for India.
“Is it vanity that I should take great pleasure in being hailed as the Grand Old Man of India? No, that title, which speaks volumes for the warm, grateful and generous hearts of my countrymen, is to me, whether I deserve it or not, the highest reward of my life.”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be united, persevere, and achieve self-Government, so that the millions now perishing by poverty, famine, and plague may be saved, and India may once more occupy her proud position of yore among the greatest and civilized nations of the world".”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1906 at the age of 80 when he became president of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta.
“When the Marquis of Salisbury made a remark about me in connection with the Holborn contest, the whole Liberal Party – including our Great Leader – the Press, and the National Liberal Club … showed generous sympathy towards me”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The elections clearly showed me that a suitable Indian candidate has as good a chance as any Englishman, or even some advantages over an Englishman, for there is a general and genuine desire among English electors to give to India any help in their power.”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was of opinion that we should be able to convince the general English public, the working man particularly, that the reforms that I advanced would be far more beneficial to the English nation, particularly to the working man...If India is prosperous and rich, she would buy far more English produce and give work proportionately to the working man.”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) first seen 1886 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: His noting in his dairy after his contesting election in 1886 page=10.
“More than 20 years earlier a small band of Hindu students and thoughtful gentlemen used to meet secretly to discuss the effects of British rule in India. The home charges and the transfer of capital from India to England in various shapes, and the exclusion of the children of the country from any share or voice in the administration of their own country, formed the chief burden of their complaint.”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As the theoretician of the "Drain Theory", he explained in his lecture delivered at the East Indian Association, London on 2 May 1867 in
“Financially: All attention is engrossed in devising new modes of taxation, without any adequate effort to increase the means of the people to pay; and the consequent vexation and oppressiveness of the taxes imposed, imperial and local. Inequitable financial relations between England and India, i.e., the political debt of ,100,000,000 clapped on India's shoulders, and all home charges also…”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Materially: The political drain, up to this time, from India to England, of above, 500,000,000, at the lowest computation, in principal alone...The further continuation of this drain at the rate, at present, of above, 12,000,000 per annum, with a tendency to increase.”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Above two quoted by Dadabhai Naoroji as the estimated the economic costs and drain of resources from India, is an extract from one of his essays, “The Benefits of British Rule, 1871” in