SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Dadabhai Naoroji, of Bombay Parsi origin, was the first Indian to be elected to Parliament in Britain. Naoroji travelled to Britain in 1885 as a business partner of Cama and Company. A member of several businesses, he became Professor of Gujarati at University College, London (1856–65).

Detailed explanation-2: -Dadabhai was the Congress President for 1886, 1893, and 1906. In 1851 he founded the Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha to promote the Zoroastrian religion.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the same year, he was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India and also raised to the peerage as Baron Sinha of Raipur in the Presidency of Bengal. He became the first Indian member of the British House of Lords, taking his seat in February 1919.