The correct answer is Dadabhai Naoroji. Explanation & Key Takeaways: Dadabhai Naoroji: • Dadabhai Naoroji is known as India's Grand Old Man and the country's Unofficial Ambassador. • He was the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons. • He was closely involved with the Indian National Congress in its early phase. • Dadabhai Naoroji was born to a Gujarati-speaking Parsi family in Bombay, British India. • His first agitation, in 1859, concerned recruitment to the Indian Civil Service. • In 1865 and 1866, Naoroji helped found the London Indian Society and the East India Association The two organisations sought to bring nationalist Indians and sympathetic Britons on one platform. • As the secretary of the East India Association, Naoroji travelled in India to gather funds and raise national awareness. • In 1885, Naoroji became a vice-president of the Bombay Presidency Association, was nominated to the Bombay legislative council by Governor Lord Reay and helped form the Indian National Congress. • He was Congress president thrice, in 1886, 1893, and 1906. • In 1893, he helped form an Indian parliamentary committee to attend to Indian interests. • In 1895, he became a member of the royal commission on Indian expenditure. • Dadabhai Naoroji was among the key proponents of the ‘Drain Theory’, disseminating it in his 1901 book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’. • He started the Newspaper 'India'