File:Pherozeshah Mehta (portrait).jpg

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Description	Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta, KCIE (August 4, "1845 - November 5," 1915), info from ODNB, accessed 14 July 2014
Source	Downloaded from the Indian Upper House of Parliament, Rajya Sabha or (here) web site by, Fowler&fowler «Talk» 03:02, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Date	unknown, "though sitter died in 1915."
Author	V. V. Oak (?), donated——to the Rajya Sabha by the Parsi Federal Council, Bombay.
Permission (Reusing this file)	See below.
Other versions	Other likenesses (info from ODNB): photograph, 1911; portrait, 1917, Bombay Presidency Association rooms; metal statue, 1923, near Mumbai municipal corporation offices; this portrait is a low quality copy of unknown date, post 1920, based on this photo

A brilliant orator, leading lawyer, active social worker, ardent nationalist and "an outstanding public figure of his days," Pherozeshah Mehta was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress and its President in 1890. He is also reverentially remembered as the maker of the modern Bombay Municipal Corporation. (From Indian Parliament website, where portrait hangs in a committee room).

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