Alarakhia Kheraj

Mukhi Alarakhia Kheraj

Town of birth

• Bagamoyo

Place of Death

• Dar es Salaam

Name of Cemetery and plot no

• SeaView Khoja Ismaili Kabrastan -Cemetery
• Dar es Salaam
• Tanzania

Source of Information

• WALJI
• Shirin Remtulla
• A HISTORY OF THE ISMAILI COMMUNITY IN TANZANIA The University of Wisconsin
• PhD. Thesis 1974

Place of longest stay

• Dar es Salaam

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Merchant

Where-City or Country

• Tanzania

Family tree

Parents

Hasham Kheraj 1850

Ratanbai Hasham Kheraj 1847–1943

Siblings

Dewji Kheraj

Dhalla Kheraj

Children

Husein Alarakhia Kheraj 1884–1950

Mehdi Alarakhia Kheraj

Born in Bagamoyo

Hasham Kheraj(Born in 1850).

According to the community oral records, Alarakhia Kheraj was Mukhi (chief) of the Dar es Salaam Khoja Ismaili Jamat between 1912-1913.

• 

  Details of all Dar es Salaam "Mukhis'.

Capital accumulated through profit-making ventures and investments, as well as successful diversification of capital, worked, however, towards the economic advancement of only a very few. In spite of the world depression and the disruption of the trading pattern created as a result of World War II, some Ismaili traders were, then, able to survive and take advantage of the changes. A few "new" families were also able to attain economic power as witnessed in the successes of Habib Punja, Jivraj Chachra, Bhatia Bros., Kassum Sunderji Samji, and Hussein Nasser Shariff, to mention just a few. But the changes also meant significant failures for other large businesses. Some of those so affected include Jaffer Haji and Co., Kanji Nanji, and Alarakhia Kheraj.