“At the heart of my book are two questions. How was an Indian elected to the British Parliament in 1892? Why would an Indian—a colonial subject from a land five thousand miles away—want to stand for election to Parliament in the first place?”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Dinyar Patel. 

For further reading:
Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism by Dinyar Patel (Harvard University Press, 2020)

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/