ALL INDIA MEMON JAMAT FEDERATION
HOMAGE to Sir ADAMJI HAJI DAWOOD
On the Occasion of Sir ADAMJI DAY - 27/01/2022

Homage / Tribute was offered to Sir Adamji Haji Dawood on Thursday, 27/01/2022 at 12.300 pm in the office of ‘All India Memon Jamat Federation’, Mumbai

• Mr Iqbal Memon Officer stated that today is the death anniversary of Sir Adamji Haji Dawood (30/06/1880 – 27/01/1948)
• Mr Iqbal Memon Officer further informed about the great social contribution done by Sir Adamji Haji Dawood.
• He was father of Education of Memons. He founded ‘The Memon Educational & Welfare Society’ in 1932 in Calcutta and thousands of Memon students have achieved higher professional degree courses and became Doctors, Engineers, Chartered Accountants, Pilots,
• Adamjee Haji Dawood was born in 1880 in Jetpur, Kathiawar, Gujarat in British India in a Memon family. While still in his teens, he ventured out to Burma and started operating as an independent businessman. The first few years of his career were spent in the rice, match-book-making for lighting home stoves and jute trade.
• By 1922, he had accumulated sufficient resources and a strong presence in the commodities markets, enabling him to set up his first industrial venture - a match factory in Rangoon. In 1927, he returned to India to establish a jute mill in Calcutta. The Adamjee Jute Mills Limited was the third jute mill to be set up by an Indian and the first Muslim-owned public company in British India. To capture this emerging niche, Adamjee along with Mr. G. D. Birla of Birla Jute, broke into this monopolistic trade controlled by the East India Company until that time.
• He was also an avid educationist and philanthropist. He was responsible for financing and helping a number of educational institutions in India.
• In recognition for his services to his countrymen, the British government knighted him in June 1938.
• Members present noted and appreciated the same.
• Mrs Razia Bai Chasmawala , Mr Imran Fruitwala, Mrs Rizwana Punjani, Mr Sajid Sopariwala, Mr Altaf Holy , & Mr Salim Nagani also offered their homage to Sir Adamjee Haji Dawood by appreciating the great dedicated services rendered.
• Dua e Maghfirat was offered & meeting dispersed at 1.30 pm