Summary:
In the same estate, today there is the Sheth Gokuldas Tejpal hostel and the Sheth Gokuldas Tejpal auditorium, which is well known for Gujarati plays. It was at the Tejpal Sanskrit Boarding School located on the road that the Indian National Congress was formed. He says: “The Tejpal Sanskrit Boarding school and the Laxmi Narayan Temple, built by the Tejpal family, are along this road.”It was at the Tejpal Sanskrit Boarding School located on the road that the Indian National Congress was formed. However, few are aware that it was on this leafy, barely 400-metre-long road that the Indian National Congress was formed by Allan Octavian Hume in 1885. In his book, Bombay Place Names and Street Names, Samuel T Sheppard lists Tejpal Road as Bombay Improvement Trust IV, Road 5 A adjoining the Tejpal Estate..