Shapurji Saklatvala Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Shapurji Saklatvala NPG x84691
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Bassano Ltd
Born into a wealthy Bombay family, Saklatvala was reluctant to join the family business, choosing instead to be a welfare worker in the slums of Bombay. After concerns were raised by the Raj about his outspoken nationalism, his family sent him to oversee the Tata offices in Manchester. Before departing he contracted malaria. He recovered at a health spa in Britain where he met Sally Marsh, a hotel waitress who he married in 1907. The couple moved to London where he joined the Labour party... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.









