Gulamhussein Abdulrasul Dhalla

Mr. Gulamhussein Abdulrasul Dhalla

Date of Death

• 1969

Place of Death

• London

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Business

Family tree

Parents

Abdulrasul Dhalla Visram 1905–1987

Fatma Abdulrasul Dhalla

KULSUM RASHID 1908–1971

Siblings

AMIRALI ABDULRASUL DHALLA

GULZAR ABDULRASUL DHALLA 1930

NARGIS ABDULRASUL DHALLA

SADRUDIN ABDULRASUL DHALLA 1936–1991

SHIRIN ABDULRASUL DHALLA

SIKANDAR ABDULRASUL DHALLA

ZULFIKARALI ABDULRASUL DHALLA

Partners

Sakarbai Ali Gulamhusien Harji Sumar 1984

Children

Alykhan Gulamhussein Abdulrasul Dhalla

Amin Gulamhussein Abdulrasul Dhalla

Khudabux Gulamhussein Abdulrasul Dhalla 2011

Born in

KULSUM RASHID(Born in 1908).

Abdulrasul Dhalla Visram(Born in 1905 Zanzibar).

The Dhalla business was hotels, bars, mill and bakery:

New, Avenue (& Star Bar) and Tanga Hotels in Tanga, and a bar and adjoining mill in Muheza about 40 kilometres west, and Noor Bakery in Tanga. The business did very well, as did Tanga's economy especially prior to the Korean War of 1954 when sisal prices went up more than ten-fold.

Noor Bakery was expropriated by the British administration for road widening - without any compensation.

In the late 1950s, sisal prices plummeted, the bank calling in its loan against the big-money Tanga Hotel which went bankrupt. The rest of the small-money business had to be disposed off.

With family business gone, Gulamhusein went to work for L. F. Smith (which later became Smith Arbutnoth) using his previous shipping experience.