Marhuma Naanbai Dharamsi
Town of birth
Country of birth
Date of Birth
- 1861
Date of Death
- 1968
Place of Death
Country of death
Name of Cemetery and plot no
- SeaView Ismaili Cemetery
- Dar es Salaam
Place of longest stay
Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life
- Parents
- Siblings
- Fulbai Dharamsi 1870–1933
- Partners
- Children
- Abdulkarim Karmali Mohamed 1914–1973Khatijabai Karmali Mohamed 1910–1986
Naanbai lived to be 107 years old, being born in 1861 during the Imamat of Mawlana Hasanaly Shah, Naanbai served the home of Aga Khan I to IV. Witnessing the Takhtnashini of Imam Aga Aly Shah, all of the Imamat Jubilees of Imam Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Naanbai left this temporal world in 1968, just a decade in to the Imamat of Mawlana Shah Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan.
Up until the age of 105, she would sit on the floor on the terrace of their Dar-es-Salaam home with a stone mill, processing millet to make baajra-ja rotla. This is a fond memory of her great-granddaughter Rosmin; who would often watch and help add in handfuls of millet into the stone mill.
