What is Dadabhai Naoroji?
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Dadabhai Naoroji<br/> दादाभाई नौरोजी | office = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]] <br/> for [[Finsbury Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Finsbury Central]] | honorific-prefix = | honorific-suffix = | image = Dadabhai_Naoroji 1889.jpg | caption = Dadabhai Naoroji c. 1889 | parliament = | predecessor = [[Frederick Thomas Penton]] | successor = [[William Frederick Barton Massey-Mainwaring]] | footnotes = | signature = Dadabhai Naoraji signature.svg | signature_alt = | majority = 3 | party = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] | otherparty = [[Indian National Congress]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1825|9|4}} | birth_place = [[Navsari]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]](present-day Gujarat, India) | death_date = {{death date|df=yes|1917|6|30}} (aged 93) | death_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]] (present- day Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) | citizenship = | nationality = | spouse = Gulbaai | relations = | children = | residence = London, United Kingdom | alma_mater = [[University of Mumbai]] | occupation = | profession = Academician, politician | cabinet = | committees = Legislative Council of Mumbai | portfolio = | website = | term_start = 1892 | term_end = 1895 | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = | birthname = }} '''Dadabhai Naoroji''' (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917), was a [[Parsi people|Parsi]] intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an Indian political and social leader. He was known as the '''Grand Old Man of India'''. Naoroji was the first Indian to be a [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British MP]],<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://sites.google.com/site/jouhsinfo/mukherjee02.pdf |author=Mukherjee, Sumita |title='Narrow-majority' and 'Bow-and-agree': Public Attitudes Towards the Elections of the First Asian MPs in Britain, Dadabhai Naoroji and Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree, 1885–1906 |journal=[[Journal of the Oxford University History Society]] |issue=2 (Mi