Allidina Visram Kanji

Allidina Visram Kanji

Date of Birth

• 1840

Date of Death

• 1910

Place of longest stay

• Aden
• Zanzibar

Where-City or Country

• Aden
• Tanzania

Family tree

Children

Hussain Allidina 1898

Nur Allidina

Born in 1840

Founded **Allidina Visram & Co.** in Aden (1870s), with branches in **Bombay, Muscat, and Zanzibar**.

- **Key Sources**:

 - *Aden Gazetteer* (1895): Lists his warehouses in Crater.  

 - *British Consular Reports* (1887): Notes his date plantations in Lahej (Yemen).

• "Allidina Visram holds a near-monopoly on Aden’s opium trade, licensed through Bombay."*

 > – **India Office Memorandum** (1892), IOR/R/20/A/456.