Dharamsi Khatau

Haji Dharamsi Khatau

Town of birth

• Nagalpur

Country of birth

• India

Date of Birth

• 1865

Place of Death

• Mombasa

Place of longest stay

• Mombasa

Where-City or Country

• Mombasa

Family tree

Parents

Khatau Nanjani

Siblings

Jivraj Khatau

Kara Khatau

Children

Haji Dharamsi Khatau

Born in 1865 Nagalpur

Khatau Nanjani(Born in).

In 1890, Dharamsi Khatua immigrated to Zanzibar from Bombay after travelling for a month in a dhow. He established Dharamsi Khatau and Co., which imported textiles from Germany, and proceeded to set up 40 branches throughout East Africa, including in Mombasa, Lamu, Malindi, Mazeras, Takangu, Kisumu, Bukoba, Nairobi and Meru, where the newly arrived Ithna-Asheries worked before establishing their own businesses.

In 1893, Dharamsi Khatau called his brother Jivraj Khatau from British Indiato manage a branch of Dharamsi Khatau & Co in Mombasa.

Together with Jivraj Khatau, he settled substantial endowments for Mosques, Imambadas and Qabrastans.