Ghulam Hussain Shakur Thavar

Ghulam Hussain Shakur Thavar

Town of birth

• Bombay

Date of Birth

• 1907

Date of Death

• 1963/05/22

Place of Death

• Chittagong

Place of longest stay

• Bombay

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Writer
• Journalist
• Social Worker

Where-City or Country

• Bombay

Family tree

Parents

Shakur Thavar 1952

Born in 1907 Bombay

Shakur Thavar(Born in Dhoraji).

Ghulam Hussain, the son of Shakur Thavar was born in 1907 in Bombay and he was educated in Sholapur. He was the partner of Shakoorbhoy Thavarbhoy & Sons and the owner of Sholapur Tanneries at Sholapur.

He is reputed in the service of the community in Bombay since his childhood. In 1922, he joined the Kandi Mowla Students Library and published a quarterly journal 'Fidai' in 1926.

Ghulam Hussain Thavar was a renowned writer, journalist and a devoted social worker. He also rendered valuable services as the President of the Fidai Academy, Andheri, Bombay (1946-1949), the Director of the Ismailia Cooperative Bank Ltd., the President of Leather Merchant Association and the President of Sholapur Rotary Club in 1944-45.

He was also an office bearer of the Lodge Royal Jubilee, Sholapur, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Sholapur District Boy Scouts Association and the District of Sholapur.

Ghulam Hussain Thavar died on Wednesday, May 22, 1963 in Chittagong.