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SHANKARSETT, JAGANNATH (1800-1865)

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SHANKARSETT, JAGANNATH (1800-1865) , the recognized See also:leader of the See also:Hindu community of Bombay for more than See also:forty years, was See also:born in 1800 into a See also:family of goldsmiths of the Daivadnya See also:caste. Unlike his forefathers, he engaged in See also:commerce, and soon acquired what was in those days a large See also:fortune, a See also:great See also:part of which he devoted to the See also:good of the public. So high was his See also:credit that See also:Arabs, Afghans and other See also:foreign merchants See also:chose to See also:place their treasures in his custody rather than with the See also:banks. Foreseeing the need of better methods of See also:education, he became one of the founders of the School Society and the Native School of Bombay, the first of its See also:kind in Western See also:India, which in 1824 See also:developed into the Bombay Native Institution, and again in 184o into the See also:Board of Education which preceded theElphinstone Educational Institution foundedin1856. When the Students' See also:Literary and Scientific Society first opened their girls' See also:schools, in spite of strong opposition of the Hindu community, he set the good example of providing another girls' school entirely at his private cost. His zeal for progress was also shown in his starting the See also:English School, the See also:Sanskrit See also:Seminary and the Sanskrit Library, all in Girgaum. To Jagannath Shankarsett and his public-spirited See also:friends, See also:Sir See also:George See also:Birdwood and Dr Bhau Daji, Bombay is also indebted for the reconstruction which, beginning in 1857, gradually changed a See also:close network of lanes and streets into a spacious and See also:airy See also:city, adorned with See also:fine avenues and splendid buildings. He was the first See also:Indian to be nominated to the legislative See also:council of Bombay under the xxty. 26Act of 1861. While his See also:influence was used by Sir See also:John See also:Malcolm to induce the See also:Hindus to acquiesce in the suppression of See also:suttee or widow-burning, his own community remember gratefully that to him they owe the See also:cremation ground at Sonapur. He died at Bombay on the 31st of See also:July 1865, regretted by all classes of society, who, about a See also:year before his See also:death, in a public See also:meeting assembled at the See also:Town See also:Hall, voted a See also:marble statue to perpetuate his memory.

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