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'''Khurshed Framji Nariman''' (1883 – 1948), also known as '''Veer Nariman''', was one of the second generation of [[Parsi people|Parsi]] stalwarts in the [[Indian National Congress]]. He remained [[Mayor of Mumbai|Mayor of Bombay]] from 1935 for a year.

==Life==
After studying B.A. and L.L.B.,<ref name=mcg/> he started his career as a lawyer, and soon his political career as a youth leader, and later with Bombay Municipality, widely supported by [[Vallabhbhai Patel]].<ref name=hi257>[[#Hi|Hinnells, p. 257]]</ref> He came into the public eye in 1928 as an independent and courageous politician for his sensational protest against the British engineer, [[George Buchanan (engineer born 1865)|George Buchanan]] involved in the Bombay '[[Bombay Backbay|Backbay]] Reclamation' scandal. He was cited for libel, but exposed the scandalous financial arrangements in this scheme.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Backbay Reclamations |url=http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/physical/geo/backbay-reclamation.html |publisher=TIFR |access-date=1 March 2022}}</ref>

Nariman was later elected president of the Bombay Provincial Congress Committee and then
mayor of Bombay. His ''Whither congress? 'Spiritual idealism' or 'political realism' some random thoughts on the Poona conference and after'', published in 1933, was unpopular among members of the party.

In 1930 he was influenced by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and organised and led the [[Civil Disobedience Movement|civil disobedience movement]] ([[Salt March]]) in Bombay and also led Bombay province contingent at the [[All India Congress Committee]] (AICC).<ref name=hi257/> He remained [[Mayor of Mumbai|Mayor of Bombay]] from 1935 to 1936.<ref name=mcg>{{cite web |title=List of Chairmen / Presidents / Mayors |url=http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/portal/anonymous/qllisthistory |publisher=Municap Corporation of Greater Mumbai |access-date=1 March 2022}}</ref> However, following the [[Indian Provincial Elections, 1937|provincial elections of 1937]] in the [[Bombay Presidency]] in which Congress secured majority, he was passed over in the selection of the chief minister in favour of [[B. G. Kher]]. He complained of a communal bias to the party high command, but no investigation was taken up by [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]. Gandhi responded to a separate appeal, but could find no proof for Nariman's complaints.

He was expelled from the Congress party due to his vociferous but unsubstantiated charges. His attempts to reestablish himself in the freedom movement through the [[All India Forward Bloc]] (founded in 1939 by [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]) failed.

[[Mumbai|Bombay]]'s [[Nariman Point]] is named after him. He lived at Readymoney Mansion near [[Horniman Circle]] (then [[Elphinstone Circle]]) in Mumbai, the road is now called Veer Nariman Road, after him.

==Works==
*''Harvey-Nariman Libel Case: With a Brief History of the Development Department..''. S. M. Surveyor, 1927.
* ''"Whither congress?": 'Spiritual idealism' or 'political realism,' some random thoughts on the Poona conference and after''. D. R. Dewoolkar, 1933.
* ''What Next?''. Bombay Book Depot, 1934.

== Legacy ==

* Mumbai's a Southern area is named Khurshed Nariman as [[Nariman Point]].

==Further reading ==
Books written about Nariman :
* {{cite book|title=Khurshed Nariman|first=Shankerprasad S.|last=Nanavaty|publisher=Chronicle Press|location=Bombay|year=1959}}
* ''Conspiracy unveiled (Nariman-Patel controversy)'', by Khurshed D. Anklesaria. Federal Publishing Co., 1938.

==References==
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*Portions of this text are from [http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/ The Mumbai Pages] (c) 2005, Sourendu Gupta, as released under the terms of the ''[[GNU Free Documentation License]]''
* {{cite book |title=Parsis in India and the Diaspora |author=John Russell Hinnells |author2=Alan Williams |publisher=Routledge |year=2007|isbn=978-0415443661 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZZiHahw2r0C&dq=Khurshed+Nariman&pg=PA257 |ref=Hi }}
* [http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/kf-nariman.html Khurshed F. Nariman, Biography] [[TIFR]]

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