Mission To England and Death
In 1918-19, despite warnings from fellow doctors not to travel abroad considering that his health was deteriorating, he led a mission to England to speak in support of communal representations before a Joint Parliamentary Committee. He remains one of the few Indians to have addressed a meeting of the members of the British Parliament. However, he was prohibited from speaking to the public on the orders of Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India. Dr. Nair died on July 17, 1919 at the age of fifty-one due to heart seizure following diabetic gangrene and Bright's disease. His body was brought to India and cremated at Golders Green.
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