Ep 187: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Fight for India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Yunow, the Prime Minister at This Point in the Victorian Era
Naroji fought internal rebellions, as he said, largely based on the question of race. He was standing in an area called central finsbury, which was then, and is still to day, a very radical area. The power to vote was only extended to those men in great britain who owned property or could meet a certain thresholdfo for ownings. And oftentimes the people who voted didn't even live in the particular district they were voting for. Even someone like naroji had the right to vote because there was no kind of citizenship at this time.
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