Kanji Hansraj

Kanji Hansraj

Town of birth

• Mundra

Country of birth

• British India

Place of Death

• Bagamoyo

Name of Cemetery and plot no

• Khoja Ismaili Cemetery, Bagamoyo

Place of longest stay

• Bagamoyo

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Trader-Wares

Where-City or Country

• Bagamoyo

Family tree

Siblings

Janmohamed Hansraj 1838

Children

Saleh Kanji Hansraj

Born in Mundra

The German Colonial Handbook Supplement 1904 mentions the firm of "Kanji Hansraj" as being wares merchants in Bagamoyo in 1904.

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  German Colonial Handbook 1908

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  Indian Traders Bagamoyo 1908

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  German Colonial Handbook, page 1 1908

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.