Name the Indian financier who funded the building of the Bombay Univer

Name the Indian financier who funded the building of the Bombay University clock tower.

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Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney

Premchand Roychand

Jamshetji Tata

H. St. Clair Wilkins

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UPSC CISF-AC-EXE – 2018

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The correct option is B) Premchand Roychand.

The Rajabai Clock Tower at the University of Mumbai (formerly Bombay University) was funded by the wealthy Indian merchant and broker Premchand Roychand. He donated a significant sum to the University in 1869 for the construction of the library building and the clock tower, which he named after his mother, Rajabai.

Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney funded the University Hall. Jamshetji Tata was a pioneering industrialist. H. St. Clair Wilkins was the British architect who designed the Rajabai Clock Tower.

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