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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Furdunji    
First Name(s)  Naoroji    
Year of Birth  1817    
Year of Death  1885    
Entry  Born in March, 18 17, at Broach : educated at the Native Education Society's school at Bombay, where he afterwards became a teacher : Assistant Professor of the Elphinstone Institution and leader of the ""Young Bombay Party"" : was chiefly instrumental in establishing the first girls' school, native library, literary society, debating club, political association, body for improving the condition of women, institution for religious and social reforms, law association and the first educational periodicals. In 1836, he was appointed Native Secretary and Translator to Sir Alexander Burnes (q.v.) at Kabul, but returned to Bombay before the Afghan war broke out. In 1845 he was appointed Interpreter of the High Court of Bombay, and retired in 1864, devoting the rest of his life to improving the condition of the people. He laboured to obtain the passing of the Parsi Matrimonial and Succession Act. He visited England on three occasions, lectured before the East India Association, and gained the high opinion of many prominent Englishmen : an influential member of the Municipality of Bombay: CLE. in 1884 : died Sep. 22, 1885.     
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