{"id":21526,"date":"2024-03-15T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T06:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21526"},"modified":"2025-04-06T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:20:26","slug":"nana-jagannath-shankarseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nana-jagannath-shankarseth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Jagannath Shankarseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nana Jagannath Shankarseth<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was a\u00a0social reformer, educationist, and philanthropist is often described as the \u201carchitect\u201d of Mumbai (then Bombay).<\/li>\n<li>He made extremely valuable contributions in terms of both ideas and money to multiple sectors, to lay\u00a0a strong foundation for the city.<\/li>\n<li>He was greatly inspired by the legendary merchant and\u00a0philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy.<\/li>\n<li>He became the\u00a0first Indian to be nominated to the Legislative\u00a0Council of Bombay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are some of Shankarseth\u2019s most significant contributions?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Education:\n<ul>\n<li>Shankarseth was deeply committed to the growth and spread of education in Bombay, and donated land owned by his family for educational institutions.<\/li>\n<li>He founded the\u00a0Native School of Bombay, which was renamed first as the Bombay Native Institution, and then as the Board of Education.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, this institution evolved into the\u00a0prestigious Elphinstone College.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Museum, Temples:\n<ul>\n<li>Shankarseth was among the wealthy donors who helped promote Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Byculla, which was designed by a famous London-based architect.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Bhawani Shankar Temple near Nana Chowk was Shankarseth\u2019s tribute to his late mother Bhawanibai Murkute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Railways\n<ul>\n<li>The first train in India ran between Boribunder and Thane on April 16, 1853.<\/li>\n<li>The 34-km project undertaken by the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company.<\/li>\n<li>The committee that gave the project impetus included\u00a0Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Nana Shankarseth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Philanthropy?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an effort an individual or organization undertakes based on an altruistic desire to improve human welfare, and wealthy individuals sometimes establish private foundations to facilitate their philanthropic efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/mumbai-central-named-after-nana-jagannath-shankarseth-who-was-he-9214447\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mumbai Central station could be named after Nana Jagannath Shankarseth: who was this social reformer celebrated as \u2018architect\u2019 of Mumbai?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nana Jagannath Shankarseth was a social reformer, educationist, and philanthropist is often described as the \u201carchitect\u201d of Mumbai (then Bombay).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}