He also served as the first "Dewan" (Prime Minister) of the erstwhile Baroda state, and Indian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1966.

Hospital, Bombay, after clearing a stiff written test and a thorough viva voce examination that was conducted by the British IMS officers.

[citation needed] Mehta was briefly the personal doctor to Mahatma Gandhi after returning to India and joined the independence movement.

He served as the first "Dewan" (Prime Minister) of the erstwhile Baroda state in free India sworn in on 4 September 1948,[3] director general of health services[4] and secretary to the ministry of health in the central government during the partition period, minister of public works, finance, industry and prohibition for the then Bombay state.

Mehta was the founder of Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Mumbai.

P. C. Bharucha, M. D. D. Gilder, N. A. Purandare and R. N. Cooper responded overwhelmingly to his appeal for financial donations to the college research corpus.

[citation needed] His marriage to Hansabhan in the 1920s provoked what historian John R. Wood describes as a "mild sensation" because it was an inter-caste union, with Mehta being of the Bania community and his wife coming from a prominent Nagar Brahmin family.