She made me what I am. (Dadabhai Naoroji)

She made me what I am.

Dadabhai Naoroji

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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... View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no doubt... Dadabhai served his country with a sacrifice and singleness of purpose which it may be rightly said, without exaggeration, was rare. A devout follower of Zoroaster, he faithfully followed the ethics of that Great Prophet - pure in thought, word and deed. View quote
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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. View quote
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