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the Gandhis and Mahomed Ans. Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, who died

in 1915 at the age of seventy, was a highly successful Parsi barrister who took an active part in the municipal affairs of Bombay and was one of the promoters of the first National Congress at Bombay in 1885. He was elected to the Viceroy's Legislative Council in 1893 and was knighted in 1904. This detailed account of his political career is well worth reading.