THE MAN
MUMBAI
FORGOT
There's a bust on the front of CSMT.
Three million people walk under it every day.
Almost none of them know whose face it is.
My hope in sharing my ancestor’s story is not to glorify the past, but to make it useful for the future — to remind us that citizenship is about participation.
— Shreerang Sunkersett · 6th-generation descendant of Nana (Read Shreerang's Letter)
ENTERPRISE
BEGINS TO CHANGE
INFRASTRUCTURE
MODERNITY
FINGERPRINTS
Built in 1806, this active temple was erected by Nana's father in memory of his mother.
VIEW LOCATION →A busy Mumbai junction that thousands cross daily, carrying his name as a term of affection.
VIEW LOCATION →Where Nana lived and died. He opened one of Bombay's first private schools for girls here.
VIEW LOCATION →Opened in 1857 to make quality schooling accessible to the poor children of Girgaon.
VIEW LOCATION →A cremation ground he defended from closure, personally funding the protective stone walls.
VIEW LOCATION →Houses Nana's white marble statue, sculpted in London. Upstairs, the library holds books he funded.
VIEW LOCATION →He chaired the fund that built this college, whose alumni became the makers of modern India.
VIEW LOCATION →Nana was a Founding Fellow in 1857 and served on its inaugural Senate, shaping its early curriculum.
VIEW LOCATION →He sat on the founding committee of this premier art school, bridging traditional craft and modern design.
VIEW LOCATION →The starting point of India's first train run in 1853. Look up: Nana is the only Indian face on the facade.
VIEW LOCATION →He proposed the medical college and funded scholarships so students could study medicine in Marathi.
VIEW LOCATION →He chaired the Agri-Horticultural Society for 35 years, founding this garden and the museum beside it.
VIEW LOCATION →
Let's put Nana's name
back where Mumbai's
journey
began.
Rename Mumbai Central Railway Station to
Jagannath
Shankarshet Railway Station.
HIS LEGACY
GENERATIONS
MUMBAI'S BUILDER
