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Ep 187: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Fight for India

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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How Does He Respond to Incentives?

Naroji was born into a parsy priestly family, which had once seen much better days. But his relatively impoverishment, he comes and he's expect to join the priesthood. He seems to have lived a fairly rich life in a community laterou e - especially in something like starting girls schools. Naroji wasn't born there. He washe was born in bombay a. It was also a very rough and tumbled place at this point and descriptions ofBombay from this era talk about a wide-spread city that people live in today. So if we want to talk about bombay and the early 18 hundreds, we automatically have to think about the places where people

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