In the 19th century, global events and international travels helped Indians craft interconnected political and economic agendas. Three important personalities from India, Bengali industrialist Dwarkanath Tagore, the Bengali reformer Rammohan Roy, and the merchant prince from Bombay, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, knitted together thick personal and institutional ties across borders. At our online talk, #TagoreRoyJejeebhoy, historian and author, Dr Dinyar Patel will tell the story of these three important figures, and how their participation in global political and economic debates influenced the trajectory of early Indian liberal politics.

About the speaker:

Dr Dinyar Patel is Associate Professor of History at the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai. He is the author of Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism, and has co-edited Dadabhai Naoroji: Selected Private Papers, with SR Mehrotra, and From Ghalib’s Dilli to Lutyens’ New Delhi: A Documentary Record, with Mushirul Hasan. Recipient of the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation Book Prize, his research has been supported by the US Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. At present, he is working on a book on the global dimensions of liberal nationalism in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.