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Burjorji Padshah : During the last ten years of Mr. Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata's life Mr. Burjorji Padshah assisted and advised him in all his activities. Mr. Padshah, like his patron, was educated at Elphinstone College, he went thence to London and Edinburgh, and subsequently to Cambridge, where he worked for three years under Sir Joseph Thomson. On his return to India he became Vice Principal of the Sindh College at Karachi, and on his resignation he offered his services to Mr. Gokhale of the Ferguson College, Poona. At this juncture, Mr. J N Tata stepped in and invited him to visit the universities of Europe, in order to bring back suggestion for the proposed endowment of Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. Owing to his previous promise to Mr. Gokhale, Burjorji hesitated, but Jamshetji advised him to explain matters to Mr. Gokhale, and to emphasize the great possiblities of the work in which he was to be engaged. Mr. Padshah took the older man's advice and was released from his engagement. For about 18 months he travelled in Europe, visiting Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland and England. Armed with sheaf of reports, Mr. Padshah returned to Bombay, and laid the results to his chief. Later during the iron prospecting, he sat untiringly in Bombay, watching and checking all the reports with utmost vigilance. He conducted most of the voluminous correspondence, supervised the accounts, framed innumerable and bodies of statistics and estimates, and, in conjunction with Mr. Dorabji Tata, excercised a general control over the whole investigation. Mr. Burjorji Padshah acted as the chief lieutant, in the cotton trade, and the other three mammoth trade taken up Mr. J N Tata namely, The Institute of Science, Iron and Steel Plant and the Hydro Electric Power Project. Click here to see picture of Burjorji Padshah ......
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