Dadabhai Naoroji was a ______.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 1 i.e. Businessman.
- Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian social political leader and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress.
- Known as 'The Grand Old Man of India' Dadabhai Naoroji was a great public figure during 1845 - 1917.
- At a time when the East India Company was ruling British India, Naoroji was laying the foundation of India’s contemporary freedom struggle, establishing India’s first political association, the Bombay Association, in 1852.
- In 1855 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Elphinstone College in Mumbai. The first Indian to be given an academic appointment, he was called ‘The Promise of India’ by another professor at the institution