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99 - Dinyar Patel - Dadabhai Naoroji: Nationalist Pioneer
Two for Tea Podcast
English - August 15, 2021 12:17 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For more about Dinyar: Dinyar Patel – Assistant Professor of South Asian History:
https://dinyarpatel.com/
Dinyar’s book, Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism (2020), can be found here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Naoroji-Pioneer-Nationalism-Dinyar-Patel/dp/0674238206
Follow Dinyar on Twitter @DinyarPatel
Timestamps
3:18 Why Naoroji was important: an excerpt from Dinyar’s book
9:15 Why Naoroji is so much less well known than other Indian nationalists
12:45 Economic drain theory
16:35 Indianising the Indian Civil Service
21:00¬- Naoroji’s career in the UK Parliament
29:09 Lord Salisbury’s notorious remarks about the “black man” running for Parliament and other racist attacks
36:45 The latter part of Naoroji’s life: greater radicalisation, a more international focus and changes to the direction of Indian nationalism
41:27 How is Naoroji viewed by other modern Indian historians?
46:47 How did Naoroji’s Parsi background affect his life, his approach, his experiences?
50:08 Two final points: the difficulties inherent in researching this material; Indians in Victorian era Britain