Question

Identify the person from the description given below.

a. Gangadhar Gadgil, the scholar of Economics considered him as "The Architect of Modern India".

b. The economic nationalism of Dadabhai Naoroji and Justice Ranade was based on his thoughts.

c. He had realized the importance of agriculture in Indian life.

1. Nana Shankar Sheth
2. Dr. Bhau Daji Lad
3. Bhaskar Tarkhadkar
4. Dadoba Pandurang

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Nana Shankar Sheth

The Correct Answer is Nana Shankar Sheth

 

• Hon. Jagannath Shankarsheth Murkute was an Indian philanthropist and educationalist.
• He was born in 1803 in the wealthy Murkute family of the Daivadnya Brahmin community in Mumbai.
• The Bombay Association was the first political organization in the Bombay Presidency founded by Jagannath Shankarsheth on 26 August 1852.
• He was considered as "The Architect of Modern India" by Gangadhar Gadgil.

 

• Bhau Daji Lad was an Indian physician, Sanskrit scholar, and antiquary, of the Goud Saraswat Brahmin community, who hailed from a village in Goa called Mandrem in 1822 and later moved to Mumbai.
• Dagoba Pandurang was a social reformer and linguist from Bombay.
• He was a brother of Atmaram Pandurang.