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Place of Birth: Vadodara, Gujarat, India
About Manilal Doctor
- Manilal Maganlal Doctor (28 July 1881 – 8 January 1956) was a British Indian barrister and politician, who travelled to numerous countries of the British Empire, including Fiji, Mauritius and Aden, providing legal assistance to the local ethnic Indian population.
- He met Gandhi, who asked him to go to Mauritius, where he represented Indo-Mauritians in court and edited a newspaper, The Hindustani.
- Gandhi later informed him of the need for a barrister in Fiji and he arrived in Fiji in 1912.
- In Fiji he also represented Indo-Fijians in court, started a newspaper, Indian Settler and established an organisation for Fiji Indians, known as the Indian Imperial Association.
- In 1916 when he was by-passed for nomination to the Legislative Council of Fiji, his relationship with the Government of Fiji deteriorated.
- The Government accused him of the violence and sabotage of the 1920 strike and deported him.
- He was barred from practicing law in several British colonies.
- He later managed to practice law in Aden, Somalia and Bihar State in India but spent his final days in Bombay.
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