# Dadabhai Naoroji — The Story of My Experiments with Truth character guide

> Dadabhai Naoroji in The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dadabhai Naoroji, Dadabhai

**First appearance:** 0055-part-ii-xxviii-poona-and-madras

## Snapshot

The Grand Old Man of Indian politics, whose standing offer of counsel Gandhi revered too much to ever claim.

## Who they are

In London, Dadabhai Naoroji looms as the elder statesman every young Indian student is urged to consult, yet Gandhi's own shyness turns the offered mentorship into a test of self-reliance. The gap between the advice he could have sought and the advice he actually took shapes his early London years, where he leans instead on strangers like Mr. Pincutt. Naoroji matters less for what he says than for what he represents: the distant standard of Indian public life that Gandhi measures himself against.

## In the story

### [In London at Last](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-i-xiii-in-london-at-last)

One of the four people to whom Gandhi carries a letter of introduction.

### [My Helplessness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_my_experiments_with_truth_se/chapters/part-i-xxv-my-helplessness)

A great man Gandhi hesitates to approach for advice despite having a letter of introduction.

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