Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy of Bombay
Subtitle: Partnership and Public Culture in Empire
Publisher: Oxford University Press India; Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780199459216
Subjects: Businesspeople, biography; India, biography; Philanthropists; India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947
Description: This work details the life and public career of one of Bombay and India's legendary individuals. Born of humble origins, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was a merchant-prince of Bombay, influential citizen, and one of India's greatest early philanthropists. An ambitious and canny individual, Jejeebhoy carved out a place under British colonialism for himself and the early Indian commercial class, and notwithstanding many challenges is testament to Indian ingenuity undercolonialism.