Arrange the following events in Dadabhai Naoroji’s life in chronological order, earliest first: 1. Founding of the East India Association 2. Launch of Rast Goftar 3. Election to the House of Commons 4. Publication of “Poverty and Un-British Rule in India”

2-1-3-4. Rast Goftar came first, in 1851. The East India Association followed in London in 1866. Naoroji won Central Finsbury in 1892, and his book on the drain came out in 1901. Orders that put the book before the election get the last two years wrong.

Consider the following statements about Dadabhai Naoroji’s time in the British Parliament: 1. He won Central Finsbury in 1892 as a Liberal candidate. 2. He took his oath of office on the Bible. 3. He lost his seat in the 1895 general election. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 and 3 only. Statements 1 and 3 are correct. He won Central Finsbury as a Liberal in July 1892, by five votes, and lost the seat in 1895. Statement 2 is wrong. As a Zoroastrian, he took his oath on the Khordeh Avesta, not the Bible.

Match the following with their descriptions: A. Rast Goftar — 1. Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure B. East India Association — 2. Gujarati reform paper started in 1851 C. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India — 3. Body set up in London in 1866 to inform the British public D. Welby Commission — 4. Book that set out the drain theory in full

A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1. Rast Goftar was Naoroji’s Gujarati reform paper of 1851. The East India Association was his London body of 1866. His 1901 book set out the drain theory in full. The Welby Commission was the Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure, which he joined in 1895.

Dadabhai Naoroji presided over the Indian National Congress at all of the following sessions EXCEPT:

Surat, 1907. Naoroji was Congress president three times: Calcutta 1886, Lahore 1893 and Calcutta 1906. He did not preside at Surat in 1907. That session broke up in the Moderate-Extremist split.

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Consider the following statements about Dadabhai Naoroji: 1. He was the first Indian to become a full professor at Elphinstone in Bombay. 2. He was the first Indian member of a Royal Commission of the kind of the Welby Commission. 3. He founded the East India Association in Calcutta. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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