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William is a friend and colleague to Dadhabai Naoroji and Mohandas Gandhi. Though The Empress specifies only that William is a “Liberal politician,” it is likely that the character is based on William Digby, a famous British radical, or William Wedderburn, a real-life friend of Naoroji’s (and a fellow parliamentary politician) who would later go on to help found the Indian National Congress.
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William Character Timeline in The Empress
The timeline below shows where the character William appears in The Empress. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 2, Scene 7
...Dadabhai stumbles home, drunk and elated from having been successfully elected to Parliament. Gandhi and William (another liberal political) attend to Dadabhai while Rani presents congratulatory telegrams from Keir Hardie and...
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