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India: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Building in Mumbai, with a statue of Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta (1845 - 1915), Parsi politician and lawyer
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India: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Building in Mumbai, with a statue of Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta (1845 - 1915), Parsi politician and lawyer. Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta was from Bombay. He was knighted by the British Government in India for his service to the law. He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay Municipality in 1873 and its president four times Äì 1884, 1885, 1905 and 1911. Mehta was one of the founding members and President of the Indian National Congress in 1890 held at Calcutta.