(a) Dadabahi cam to be kown as India’ unofficial Ambassador in England. He established the East India Association in London in 18866. Through this association he pursued Indian causes and Indian rights on English soil. He informed the British people of the true state of affairs in India. The Association was instrumental in countering the **** by the London Ethnological Society which in its session in 1866 had tried to prove the inferiority of the Asians to the Europeans. He exposed the economic exploitation of India by the British. Many eminent Englishmen supported his endeavors. He was the first Indian to get elected to the British House of Commons in 1892. As a member of British Parliament he rendered a great service to the people of Indian origin in South *****. it was due to him that the British Parliament passed a resolution in 1893 to the effect the ICS examinations be held simultaneously both in England and India.
(b) He was an exponent of the ideals of Swaraj, Swadeshi and Boycott. He exhorted the people to appreciate their own culture and derive strength and unit from it. He along with Lala Lajpat Rai and Tilak spear-headed a new era of militant nationalism. At the Surat Session in 1907 he sided with Lajpat Rai and Tilak. He was sentenced for six months for refusing to give evidence against Aurobindo in the ‘vande Mataram Sedition Case’. He visited England in 1900 and again in 1908 to propagate the nationalist viewpoint and gradually drifted towards constitutional moderation. He was a great thinker and writer. His publications include ‘Soul of India’ and ‘The Spirit of Indian Nationalism’. He was an eloquent speaker. In 1918 he went to England, along with Tilak as a member of Home Rule League deputation. He **** in 1932. He is known as ‘Father of Revolutionary Thought of India”.
