Text contributed by Tamara Rasquinha (IG: @tamararasquinha), team Inheritage.
Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery
In the unlikely centre of the city’s business hub of Nariman Point lies a humble display detailing the life of an even more humble patriarch and his family of freedom fighters – an individual, personal history of the kind that has long been overlooked in the general narrative of the independence struggle. At the Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, photographs and handwritten correspondences trace the early life of his father Jamnalal Bajaj, the founder of the Bajaj family business. Key artefacts include rebellious letters renouncing his inheritance and captivating photographs of Jamnalal leading a satyagraha defying a British ban on flying the national flag.
Among the gallery’s many highlights, the photographs that struck me most are those of Jamnalal Bajaj, a wealthy businessman, opting to be a ‘C’ class prisoner and undertake arduous manual labour during his…
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