<P> Naoroji is also credited with the founding of the Indian National Congress, along with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha . His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention to the draining of India's wealth into Britain . He was also a member of the Second International along with Kautsky and Plekhanov . </P> <P> In 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg inaugurated the Dadabhai Naoroji Awards for services to UK - India relations . </P> <P> Naoroji was born in Mumbai in a Gujarati - speaking Parsi family, and educated at the Elphinstone Institute School . He was patronised by the Maharaja of Baroda, Sayajirao Gaekwad III, and started his public life as the Dewan (Minister) to the Maharaja in 1874 . Being an Athornan (ordained priest), Naoroji founded the Rahnumae Mazdayasne Sabha (Guides on the Mazdayasne Path) on 1 August 1851 to restore the Zoroastrian religion to its original purity and simplicity . In 1854, he also founded a Gujarati fortnightly publication, the Rast Goftar (or The Truth Teller), to clarify Zoroastrian concepts and promote Parsi social reforms . In 1855, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the Elphinstone College in Bombay, becoming the first Indian to hold such an academic position . He travelled to London in 1855 to become a partner in Cama & Co, opening a Liverpool location for the first Indian company to be established in Britain . Within three years, he had resigned on ethical grounds . In 1859, he established his own cotton trading company, Dadabhai Naoroji & Co . Later, he became professor of Gujarati at University College London . </P> <P> In 1865, Dadabhai Naoroji directed the launch the London Indian Society, the purpose of which was to discuss Indian political, social and literary subjects . In 1861 Naoroji founded The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe alongside Muncherjee Hormusji Cama In 1867 Naoroji also helped to establish the East India Association, one of the predecessor organisations of the Indian National Congress with the aim of putting across the Indian point of view before the British public . The Association was instrumental in counter-acting the propaganda by the Ethnological Society of London which, in its session in 1866, had tried to prove the inferiority of the Asians to the Europeans . This Association soon won the support of eminent Englishmen and was able to exercise considerable influence in the British Parliament . In 1874, he became Prime Minister of Baroda and was a member of the Legislative Council of Mumbai (1885--88). He was also a member of the Indian National Association founded by Sir Surendranath Banerjee from Calcutta a few years before the founding of the Indian National Congress in Bombay, with the same objectives and practices . The two groups later merged into the INC, and Naoroji was elected President of the Congress in 1886 . Naoroji published Poverty and un-British Rule in India in 1901 . </P>

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