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To Prevent Abuse, We Request That You Contact Us Here Contact If You Wish To Be Registered As A User And Add Information About Your Family. Once you receive your username & password and have logged in, please follow these instructions: File:How to upload on Khojawiki 2020.pptx Or Just Use This "SIMPLE FORM"- We Will Enter Your Information For You! We Wish to Honour Some of Our Dedicated Volunteers & Supporters Every Week.
1. Farida Giga for being a Khojawiki Centre volunteer for the last 15 months; 2. Shamshtabrez Dhirani of Edmonton for his help in circulating our emails; 3. Naren Valabh Kanji VARAMBHIA of London, UK for his generous help with Gujarati; 4. Zakir Kassam of Mississauga for his help in entering family trees; 5. Mohammed Rahimtoola of Karachi for his continued support; 6. Ali Amlani of Toronto for putting his photographic skills to our use for our events; 7. Zeenat Shariff of Toronto for her effort as a coordinator; 8. Dr. Hasnain Walji of MARC for his encouragement; 9. Dr. Alnoor Abdulla of Vancouver for his hospitality & words of encouragement; 10. Mohamed Mullani of Toronto with his donations of office equipment & generous support;
Essays
Essays on Khoja Traditions
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SOME RECENT PROFILES- Click names for their stories:
FEATURED PROMINENT PERSONALITY
Sir Currimbhoy Ibrahim, 1st BaronetThe First and Only Khoja Hereditary British Lord
Among those who contributed to India's present position as a formidable industrial power were the business titans of the nineteenth century, who despite the constraints of British colonial rule, managed to create huge commercial and industrial conglomerates that outdid those of their masters. These days, we are familiar with the Tatas and Birlas but it was the early textile magnets with their 136 mills between 1856 and 1900, who gave India its export economy. There were at least seven Khoja mill owners among them, of whom the most successful entrepreneur and renowned philanthropist was Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim, who went on to be made the first and only Khoja Baron (Lord) from India, (the only other being Lord Amir Bhatia of Hampton) with a grant of lands recognized by the British Crown and a hereditary title that has remained in his family since.. Read more
Earliest Portuguese Historical Reference To Khoja Merchants = 1543 AD
Check it out here!!! Khoja Shams-ud-din Gillani
INDEX OF OVER 350 PERSONAL HISTORIES IN KHOJAWIKI
Each is unique and most contain fascinating stories of migration and settlement of our ancestors. Click on the name to read the page. 1. Abdallah Ratansi 118. Habib Adat Dewji 235. Mohamed Dewji Bhagat Compiled originally by Javid Jeraj
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FEATURED ESSAY
The Quedagh Merchant17th Century ships built by Indians in Surat"
A wealthy Khoja merchant from Surat, whose ship, the "Quedagh Merchant" was captured by Captain William Kidd, the notorious British pirate and for which Capt. Kidd was hanged 300 years ago!Read More
IN THE NEWS
KHOJAWIKI SECURES A TREASURE-TROVE OF GERMAN COLONIAL RECORDS OF KHOJAS IN TANZANIA. During a recent visit to the German National Archives in Koblenz, we discovered some recently digitized records from Tanzania - a couple of very detailed German Colonial Handbooks dated 1903-1904-and 1908. From those, our volunteers have painstakingly extracted all recorded Khoja family names & details and added them on to the Khojawiki website database. This is a valuable find- thousands of Khojas from Tanzania can now find confirmation of their family oral history...of their great-grandparents and trace them to various towns and villages of their first settlement, including the Dukas and other businesses they established. We have names and business details from centers like Morogoro, Kilosa, Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, Pangani, etc. and also from small “bush” settlements like Magalla, etc. All the towns and names are listed underneath and the detailed information for each ancestor is up-loaded on the Khojawiki database. Please check your family name on the general search engine above to see if your ancestor has been recorded. Once again, we at Khojawiki are very proud of our volunteers who are trying to preserve our family heritage so our grandchildren can know their real past. SEARCH HERE - BY TOWNS, AND THEN INSERT NAME IN MAIN SEARCH ENGINE ABOVE
Mr. I. I. Dewji, Director of the Khoja Oral Family History Documentation Project was invited to speak to a conference at Mumbai University that included, amongst many other scholars, the Directors of the two very prestigious academic institutions engaged in Khoja Studies-The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) of the University of Paris and the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. Mr. Dewji's presentation was on the subject of "Crowd-sourcing and Wiki initiatives in history preservation." We are pleased to provide a video of his talk:
"KHOJAWIKI.org TEAMS UP TO BRING YOU A USEFUL SERVICE." A constant complaint in the West is that children do not understand grandparents when they speak Kutchi language. Valuable opportunities for transmitting knowledge, history or just family interaction are lost. Whilst it may be hard to learn a whole new language, Alykhan Kaba has a solution - a web-based translator app that will help you with over several thousand words. It's free and run by a not-for-profit organization. http://www.kutchilanguageonline.org is an open website where you can translate almost all words that we commonly encounter in Kutchi. It provides English to Kutchi and reverse. Try it. Surprise Nanimaa. It will be fun and it will heartwarming. I.I.Dewji Director, Khojawiki.org "DIASPORIC DISTRACTIONS" LAUNCHED IN NORTH AMERICA"
Khojawiki.org was the venue for the launch in Canada of a new book on short stories “Diasporic Distractions” marking the Indian diaspora in Africa with a particular focus on the end of the colonial era. The book was launched by Iqbal I. Dewji, Director of Khojawiki.org at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto on Sunday 6th May 2018.
TORONTO DROP-IN CENTRE: We are extremely pleased to announce that the 1st Khojawiki Drop-In Centre is in operation at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Don Mills. Located opposite the Agakhan Museum, it is convenient for our seniors to come for a cup of chai and share their personal stories with our dedicated group of volunteers, who then enter the narratives, photos and other mementos on this website for preservation. The center is bright, spacious and has a room dedicated to audio-visual recordings to keep for posterity. All are welcome between 11 am to 6 pm on week-days. The weekend is by appointment. Our complete contact: KHOJAWIKI, 6 Garamond Court, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada, M3C 1Z5 Tel: (647) 428-5890 Email: contact@khojawiki.org Directions to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
In Canada, high school students must volunteer 40 hours to the community service and as a registered charity, we are qualified to provide the necessary certification. Please contact us if you can get a student in your family to build your family tree and at the same time qualify for these hours. This way, they would likely never forget their ancestral lineage!Contact
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READ THE LIFE STORIES OF THESE REMARKABLE WOMEN-ગુજરાતીમાં અનુવાદિત - તેથી તમે વડીલો સાથે શેર કરો - Translated into Gujarati now so you can share with your elders!!-Click on the photos
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