Kassam Walji Patel
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Kassam Walji Patel
Place of longest stay
Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life
- Merchant
Where-City or Country
- Parents
The German Colonial Handbook 1908 mentions the firm of "Kassam Walji" as a merchant in Iringa in 1908.
According to John Illiffe (see below), 1000 Indians & family followed German settler, Capt. Tom Prince to Iringa in 1898. But the the German Colonial Handbook Supplement 1904 omits this fact. So Kassam Walji may have arrived earlier but is first recorded as being there in 1908.
German Colonial Handbook 1908
German Colonial Handbook, page 1 1908
Indian Traders Iringa 1908
Indian Settlement Iringa- John Illiffe- A short History of Tanganyika pg 140
Kassam Walji's Dukawalla-Merchant shop and home.
