Mehta, Sir Pherozeshah

Mehta, Sir Pherozeshah

▪ Indian politician
born Aug. 4, 1845, Bombay, India
died Nov. 5, 1915, Bombay

      Indian political leader, planner of Bombay's municipal charter and founder of the English-language newspaper Bombay Chronicle (1913).

      The son of a middle-class Parsi foreign trader, Mehta studied law in England for four years, was called to the bar in 1868, and then returned home. During a legal defense of a Bombay commissioner, Arthur Crawford, he noted the need for municipal government reforms and later drew up the Municipal Act of 1872, for which he was called the “father of municipal government in Bombay.” He became a commissioner himself in 1873 and served as chairman in 1884–85 and in 1905. A member of the Bombay Legislative Council from 1886, he was elected to the governor-general's Supreme Legislative Council in 1893. He presided over the sixth session of the Indian National Congress in 1890. He was knighted in 1904. After a trip to England in 1910, Mehta was appointed a vice chancellor of the University of Bombay. In 1911 he helped found the Central Bank of India, financed and controlled by Indian interests.

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