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Kutchi Memons is a Sunni Islamic community located in Mumbai.
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Kutchi Memons is a Sunni Islamic community located in Mumbai.
Kutchi Memons came to Mumbai in 1813 being attracted to the trading aspect of the city. [1]
The 1993 Bombay bombings were a series of 13 bomb explosions Organized By terrorists that took place in Mumbai, India, then known as Bombay, on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries.
The Memon caste originated in the Northwestern part of ancient India, currently the Sindh region of modern-day Pakistan. The majority of the Memon people around the world follow the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam. The Memon people have cultural similarities with the Khoja, Khatri (Vohra), and Gujarati peoples. Memon people speak the Memoni language as their first language. Some consider the Memon language to be a dialect of the Sindhi language. The Memon language shares vocabulary with the Sindhi language, Kutchi language and Gujarati language. The Memon people are connected through the Jamaat khana; which is responsible for the social and monetary benefits of the Memon people in a specific country or town. Today, the Memon people are connected through globally recognized organisations such as the World Memon Organisation (WMO) and International Memon orgnisation (IMO)
Kutchi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Kutch region of India and also in the Sindh region of Pakistan. The name of the language is also transliterated as Kutchhi, Kachchi, Kachchhi, Kachhi or Cutchi.
Memoni language is the language of Memon people historically associated with Kathiawar. Memon people is a subgroup or an ethnic group that originated in North Western India. After the Indian partition in 1947, Memon people of the Kathiawar region in modern Guajarat state, India migrated to neighboring states, cities and towns within India, but large number of Memons settled in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya and even United States and Canada since the independence in 1947.
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Kutchi Memons, also spelled as Cutchi Memons, are a part of largest Memons, a Muslim community of Pakistan and India, who speak the Memon language and are original residents of Kutch region of the Gujarat state in India. Kutch is the largest district in India.
Ibrahim Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq Memon, better known by the nickname Tiger Memon, is an alleged Indian terrorist, reckoned to be one of the primary master-minds behind the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case. He is wanted by Interpol and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He is a member of D-Company, a gang led by Dawood Ibrahim. He got the nickname Tiger after helping a petty drugs and weapons smuggler to evade the crime branch of Mumbai Police by driving his car recklessly over 100 km/h on one-way roads.
The ancestors of present-day Memons who settled a few centuries ago in various parts of Gujarat State in India, This region of India was known as Kathiawar. Currently this region is known as Saurashtra.
The Kutchi people traditionally hail from the Kutch district of the western Indian state of Gujarat.
Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon was an Indian terrorist who was convicted over his involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings by Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court on 27 July 2007. Yakub Memon was the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon. His appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected and he was executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 in Nagpur jail.
Kutch was a princely state that included Bhuj, Anjar, Lakhpath, and Mandvi. The Kutchi Memons are now spread all over the globe with concentrated populations in Mumbai, Pune, Mysore, Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Coonoor, Trivandrum, Quilon, Kayamkulam, Alleppey and Ooty, Aurangabad in Maharashtra
Gulam Mehmood Banatwalla, also spelled as Banatwala, was an Indian politician and social worker from Mumbai. Banatwalla, a "firebrand orator" and intellectual, was regarded as the pan-India face of the Indian Muslim community.
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The Machiyar are both Hindi and Muslim community found in the state of Gujarat in India. They also known as the Machhi.
Memon may refer to:
Kutchi-Swahili, or Cutchi-Swahili, is a Swahili-based creole spoken among the Indian population of East Africa. It is the native language of some Gujarati families from Zanzibar that have settled in the larger cities of mainland Tanzania and Kenya, and is used as a second language by others of the Indian community. It is derived from the Kutchi language of the Kutch district in Gujarat.
Ismail Yusuf c. 1870 - 1915, was an early 20th century Indian businessman and the proprietor of Bombay Steam Navigation Company. The Yusuf family own vast amounts of land in Mumbai and in the vicinity as is one of the ten largest private landowners in Mumbai.
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