Book review: Naoroji: pioneer of Indian nationalism by Dinyar Patel

In Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism, Dinyar Patel offers a new biographical study of the groundbreaking politician Dadabhai Naoroji, a nineteenth-century activist who became an influential critic of British imperialism, a key founding figure in the Indian nationalist movement and the first Indian MP elected to the British Parliament. Drawing on extensive research to detail Naoroji’s long life and accomplishments, this extraordinary biography presents a rounded portrait of a true ‘Pioneer of Indian Nationalism’, writes Ramnik Shah. Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism. Dinyar Patel. Harvard University Press. 2020.