Uka

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Uka
Town of birth
Place of longest stay
Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life
  • Cultivation

Born in Badin, Sind

Nazarali Walji traces his lineage from a certain dedicated person, called Uka of Badin,Sind.

After Jam Rawal of Jamnagar migrated from Sind to Kutch and then to Kathiawar around 1600's, many Sindhi and Kutchi Khojas followed in the decades after that.

Uka also migrated with his family in Kathiawar and adopted profession of cultivation due to grants of land by the Jam to the loyal Khojas.

Uka had five sons, Savji, Vali, Abram, Jiva and Alibhai.

Walji, the son of Abram Uka was an ordinary farmer, a man who worked toiled and laboured on the small farm a few acres with a few bullocks and cows.