Madhavjee Jessani

Madhavjee Jessani

Town of birth

• Dodhia
• Kathiawar

Country of birth

• India

Place of longest stay

• Jamnagar

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Farmer

Where-City or Country

• Jamnagar

Family tree

Children

Mehboob Madhavjee Jessani 1964

Born in Dodhia, Kathiawar

Madhavjee Bhai Jessani was a small peasant farmer in Dodhia growing juwar,bajar and groundnuts, which were sold locally in the villages of Navgham area in Jamnagar State, where many Khojas had settled centuries earlier after their arrival from Kutch.

Life was hard and there were few opportunities for progress.

In 1953, a rich Jamnagar merchant and a prominent member of the Jamnagar City Khoja Ismaili jamaat, Waras Chagganbhai Badlawara gave him a one room chuna-thatched roof house at the Pi Ji Vaari, the Khoja Kabarastan cemetery and Dharamsala guest house, in exchange for his labour in maintaining the property.

He has lived there ever since.