Khan saheb Manchersha Palonjee Kikobad (1856-1935)
An Educationist from Surat
by Rustom Dadabhai Siodia (b.1881)
dated: 1920
Oil on canvas
30 x 23 in. (76 x 58.5 cm.)
He was appointed Assistant Master at the Irish Presbyterian Mission
Boys’ High School, Surat in 1873. He was later also appointed Head
Master and was known as a highly efficient scholar of English. He
worked as Principal at a Parsi Girls’ school in 1914.