Parsi memorial

Tucked away in a quiet upstairs corner of the long verandas at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum, this handsome elephant bearing a howdah is a memorial to Curtsetji Jamsheji Sethna.
He was a descendent of Seth Rustom Manek who was the chief broker of the Surat East India factory (trading post) in 1660, before it was moved to Bombay.
The title Seth/Sethna (Hebrew) was conferred on Rustom by the English, and means appointed.
He was an Iranian Zoroastrian or Parsi, and his merchant descendants laid the groundwork for, and then facilitated and nurtured, Bombay's great commercial success.