Topic– India’s Freedom Struggle- Significant Personalities.
2) Dadabhai Naoroji played an important role in India’s history and its freedom struggle. Discuss.(250 words)
Directive word
Discuss- this is an all-encompassing directive which mandates us to write in detail about the key demand of the question. we also have to discuss about the related and important aspects of the question in order to bring out a complete picture of the issue in hand.
Key demand of the question.
The question wants us to write in detail about the role played by one of the most prominent and celebrated freedom fighters of India- Dadabhai Naoroji. We have to write in detail about his social, economic and political achievements.
Structure of the answer
Introduction- write a few introductory lines about the Dadabhai Naoroji. E.g Dadabhai Naoroji was a legendary Indian political and social leader, academician, and intellectual. Famously called the ‘Grand Old Man of India,’
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Discuss in points his social, economic and political achievements vis a vis his role towards India. E.g
- He played an instrumental role in the formation of the Indian National Congress. He was a member of the Second International.
- Naoroji also served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons as a Liberal Party member. He was the first Indian to become a British MP.
- Naoroji was a prominent Indian nationalist and critic of the economic policy of the British Raj in India.
- Through his book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India,’ he put forward the ‘theory of drain of wealth,’ which highlighted the exploitation of Indian resources for the benefit of Britain.
- He brought out the economic adversities faced by India before the English audience and this he made possible by presenting himself as an Imperial citizen.
- He said that Indians were either subjects or slaves of the British, which depended on the extent of Britain’s wish to give the institutions already operated by them to India.
- He was instrumental in the formation of the ‘London Indian Society’ in 1865. The objective of the society was to discuss Indian social, political and scholarly subjects.
- He also helped in setting up the ‘East India Association’ in 1867 that aimed at conveying the Indian perspective to the Britain public etc.
Conclusion- based on your discussion, form a fair and a balanced conclusion on the given issue.
