In 1872, Temulji passed his medical licentiate at
Grant Medical College. his interest in
puerperal fever led him to co-found the
Parsi Lying-in Hospital, which was completed in 1895. and he came to be symbolic of "Parsi motherhood". Nariman headed the maternity hospital for twenty one years and joined the Governor's council in 1910. In 1913, Nariman was elected vice president of the newly formed
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Bombay and later became its president. He was knighted in 1914 for his work during the plague epidemic in India at the turn of the 19th century. He later became a Fellow of
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1922, by which time he claimed to have attended more than 25,000 maternity cases. He was selected as
Sheriff of Bombay for 1922–23. From 1932 to 1938, he was grandmaster of the
District Grand Lodge of India, the first grandmaster of All Scottish Freemasonry in India. ==Death and legacy==