Dictionary of Indian Biography/Bhownagri, Sir Mancherji Merwanji

by Charles Edward Buckland

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BHOWNAGRI, SIR MANCHERJI MERWANJI (1851–)

Son of a distinguished Parsi merchant: educated at the Elphinstone College and Bombay University: began life as a journalist: State agent in Bombay for the Bhaunagar Raja, 1873: M.P. for Bethnal Green since 1895: author of History of the Constitution of the East India Company, a Gujarati translation of H.M.'s Life in the Highlands. K.C.I.E.