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| | Zoroastrian Association of Victoria |
 | | Much later, Dadabhai Naoroji’s interest in women’s emancipation was commemorated in a beautifully impressive plaque at the base of his statue at Fort, Bombay, depicting him leading the whole nation, with the girls and women in the foreground, and a legend inscribed, “Mothers Really build Nations”. |
 | | Dadabhai was the (first) founder-editor in 1851 of the ground breaking newspaper, the Rast Goftar, (the People’s Tribune), furthering Dadabhai’s passionate belief in women’s emancipation, religious reforms and political participation. |
 | | Dadabhai was the first Indian to be elected a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party at Westminster, London in 1892, campaigning vigorously for the rights of the Indians, seeking to reform British rule, and eventually calling for Indian Independence. |
| www.zav.org.au /pages/heroes/dadabhai.htm (615 words) |
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