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'''The Honourable Member for India''' was an informal title popularly applied to a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) in the British [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] who were known for taking a particular personal interest in social or political conditions in [[British India]] or for personal sympathy towards the [[Indian independence movement]]. The historian Nicholas Owen describes it as a "tradition" for those who "wished to take the moral lead in demolishing or transforming empire".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Owen |first1=Nicholas |title=The British left and India: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, 1885-1947 |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-923301-4 |page=199}}</ref><br />
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The term implies that the MP considered India to be their [[United Kingdom constituencies|constituency]] even though, as a colonial territory, it was not in fact represented in Parliament.<br />
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Members of Parliament popularly known as the "Member for India" included [[John Bright]], [[Henry Fawcett]], [[Charles Bradlaugh]], [[Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood|Josiah Wedgwood]], and [[Fenner Brockway]].<ref name=Owen17>{{cite book |last1=Owen |first1=Nicholas |title=The British left and India: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, 1885-1947 |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-923301-4 |page=17}}</ref> It was generally considered to be a compliment by those it was applied to.<ref name=Owen17/><br />
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[[Category:Indian independence activists]]<br />
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