When the British government announced in 2014 that it would install a statue of Mohandas Gandhi in London’s Parliament Square, there were complaints in certain quarters that the wrong anticolonial Indian was being honored in the heart of an erstwhile empire. The statue, some said, should be not of the Mahatma—however great his status as tormentor-in-chief of the British Raj—but of Dadabhai Naoroji. If there were many befuddled people who said “Dadabhai who?” at the time, there will be far fewer who will say so now, given the...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 08, 2020 14:15 UTC