Naoroji was a founding member of the Indian National Congress and the first Asian to serve as a Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1892-1895. Introduce students to the complexities of the situation with Dadabhai Naoroji’s piece on the benefits and detriments of British rule. There were, of course, at least two sides to how people viewed the British Raj. The law and order brought by British rule, known as the British Raj, were no more. When India was given independence from the British Empire and partitioned in 1947, the devastation that the British had warned of came to fruition: around 1 million died when Muslims fought against Hindus and other groups.
The British Empire is generally recognized as having been a force for good in India through the 19 th century and arguably beyond. He produced many works of fiction and prose set there, the most famous being the Jungle Book.
The poet, Rudyard Kipling, was born in British India in 1865 and spent much of his life there.
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