BANDALI LALJI

BANDALI LALJI

Place of longest stay

• Morogoro

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Merchant
• Plantation owners Businessman

Where-City or Country

• Tanzania

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Children

Nurdin Bandali Lalji

Born in

The German Colonial Handbook 1908 mentions "Bandali Lalji" as an Indian trader, resident in Morogoro in 1908. Since he is not listed in 1904 version of the German Colonial Handbook, it would seem that he arrived around the time the Central Railway reached Morogoro in 1907.

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  German Colonial Handbook 1908

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  German Colonial Handbook, page 1 1908

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  Indian Traders Morogoro 1908

"Then came the failure of the cotton crop. Several large commercial houses collapsed. Ismaili merchants lost large investments. Planters and buyers like Bandali Merali, Fazal Kassam, and Bandali Lalji of Morogoro incurred heavy losses. " WALJI, Shirin Remtulla, A HISTORY OF THE ISMAILI COMMUNITY IN TANZANIA The University of Wisconsin, Ph,D. 1974