Dhalla Bhimji
- WALJI
- Shirin Remtulla
- A HISTORY OF THE ISMAILI COMMUNITY IN TANZANIA The University of Wisconsin
- Ph
- D. 1974
- Merchant
- Children
According to the community oral records, Dhallabhai Bhimji was Mukhi (chief) of the Dar es Salaam Khoja Ismaili Jamat between 1921-1922..
Details of all Dar es Salaam "Mukhis'.
- owner of Dhalla Bhimji Boarding House
Among the prominent Indians of the (Khoja ed.) Ismaili community, I remember a number by names, and I shall enumerate some of them. Bandali Remtullah as Mukhi was their representative. Others were Alidina Visram, Ibrahim Lila, Kanji Hansraj, the heir of Jan Hansraj, Dhalla Bhimji, Daramsi Haschem, and Jaffer Dossa Thawer, Jaffer Remtullah, Pardan Mohamed, Abdullah Allarakia, Merali Remtullah, Jaffer Somji, Ali Siwji, Ismail Jiwani, Ali Somji, Ibrahim Hasim, Saleh Siwji, and many others. In 1899, there were 401 brick houses in the town of Bagamoyo, belonging almost entirely to members of the (Khoja ed.) Ismaili community. In addition, there were 2431 native houses with makuti roofs, built along streets which were already comparatively straight in those times. Besides, there were two large and magnificent houses which had been given as a present to the German administrative authorities by the Indian Sewa Hadji.
By Otto Mahnke, German Colonial Official- reprinted from Simerge.
"According to the information obtained through interviews, it seems that on the whole the traders survived the crisis, and very few Ismailis went out of business. Some of the Ismailis which were affected by the Depression were Alarkahia Kheraj, Dhalla Bhimji, Remtulla Jessa, Ladha Ebrahim, Merali Rawji and S. R. Hooda." WALJI, Shirin Remtulla, A HISTORY OF THE ISMAILI COMMUNITY IN TANZANIA The University of Wisconsin, PhD. Thesis 1974
