Who was the first Indian elected to the British House of Commons in 1892 ?
Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British House of Commons in 1892 as the Liberal member for Finsbury Central, becoming the first Indian and indeed the first Asian to sit in that House.
He won by a margin of only three votes, which earned him the nickname "Mr Narrow Majority", and he used the seat to press Indian grievances directly in Parliament. His drain of wealth theory, later set out in Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, argued that a systematic transfer of resources to Britain was the root of Indian poverty.
The other leaders never sat in the Commons. Surendranath Banerjee built the Indian Association and the moderate movement in Bengal, Gopal Krishna Gokhale worked through the Imperial Legislative Council and the Servants of India Society, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak led the extremist wing from within India.
Hence, the answer is Dadabhai Naoroji.
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