History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

142 HISTORY OF THE PARSTS. [CHAP, II.

towards educational institutions, and the scholarships he founded in connection with them, are well known.

The different charitable institutions in the Bombay Presidency have often benefited by his unstinted liberality. He contributed Rs.50,000 for a home for European strangers; and to every establishment for the maintenance of the poor, the aged, the infirm, and the friendless orphan, which required monetary aid, he invariably extended a helping hand. Neither was the thirsty wayfarer forgotten, for through his benevolence many drinking fountains have been erected throughout the city.

Nor were Sir Kavasji’s charities confined to his own country ; they extended to Europe. His munificent donations to charitable institutions in England, and his handsome subscription for the relief of the sick and wounded of both nations during the last Continental war, will long remain fresh in the recollection of every one.

In consideration of his philanthropy and benevolence, the Companionship of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India and afterwards the dignity of knighthood were conferred upon him by Her Majesty the Queen-Empress, honours which he well deserved. His friends and admirers, European as well as native, also honoured him by raising a subscription among themselves and placing a marble statue of him in the

University Hall, Bombay, towards the construction of