A rigorous, transparent record tracing every historical claim back
to verified primary texts, public archives, and academic
literature.
Documenting the gaps, discrepancies, and corrections needed to
establish the true legacy of modern Bombay's founding father.
Archival Sources & Bibliography
This page is what separates this site from an SEO content farm. Every claim on this site traces back to something here — and the gaps are listed too.
The Primary Corpus
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Amar Rameshchandra Shende, Namdar Jagannath “Nana” Shankarsheth — Sculptor of Modern Mumbai | Commissioned by the Maharashtra State Board of Literature and Culture. 18 chapters, ~51,000 words. Cited, not reproduced — licence currently covers podcast use only. |
| Magic Nana Ajoba — 9-episode podcast | Spotify / Apple Podcasts / Amazon Music. See Media. See Media. |
Public Record
| Source | Status |
|---|---|
| English Wikipedia | Needs correction — wrong on statue date/location, birthplace, Bombay Association presidency |
| Marathi Wikipedia | Needs correction — same fixes needed as EN |
| Wikidata Q6122126 | Needs correction — feeds Google knowledge panel + AI assistants directly |
| Marathi Vishwakosh (Govt of Maharashtra) | Verified — official — |
| MCGM Mumbai Legacy Project | Verified — official — |
| Maharashtra State Gazetteers | Verified — official — |
| Nana Shankarshet — Shivanand Khinakar (1986) | Verified — digitized — |
| Development of Education for Women in Bombay under the British Raj (JSTOR) | Verified — academic — |
| The Rise of Bombay: A Retrospect — S.M. Edwardes (1902) | Verified — public domain — |
The Wanted List
Per Shende's own acknowledgements: “various scholars and dignitaries have written 30 to 35 biographies of Nana's life work in Marathi, English, and Kannada.” Two are digitized. This gap is the actual project — if you have or know of any of these, that's more valuable than almost anything else on this list.
| Title | Author | Status |
|---|---|---|
| नाना शंकरशेट यांचे चरित्र, काळ व कामगिरी (1959) | P.B. Kulkarni | Not yet located — the standard scholarly biography, priority #1 |
| भारताचा पहिला राष्ट्रपुरुष | Dr. Madhav R. Potdar | Not yet located — in print, purchasable new |
| Jagannath Shankarsheth (2005) | Dr. P.P. Shirodkar | Not yet located — main English scholarly biography |
| PhD thesis on Nana's work | Dr. Surekha Sawant | Not yet located |
| … and roughly 30 more | Various | See find-spreadsheet.csv for the running list |