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Curumsey Damjee (also spelled Karamsi or Kasamshi Damji) JP (1844-1918) was a noted businessman. Page 205 Hailing from Waghura, a small village in remote Kutch he migrated to

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(now Mumbai) at a young age and became a very successful businessman, working with the Bombay Port Trust.

Work and award

Damjee's company, Curumsey Damjee and Sons, was involved in work at Bombay Port. Page 604 He was given the honorific title "

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" by the then British government in

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for his good community work on 1 January 1899. Page 132

Religion and community

The Curumsey Damjee Community Hall at the Dariya Sthan (Kutchi Lohana Mahajan) Masjid Bunder, Mumbai was named after him. He also co-edited a 1902 version of ''Bhramanand Kavya'', an important Swaminarayan Scripture, written by

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. A copy of this book was referred to in the Catalogue of Marathi and Gujarati books of the British Museum, Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts in 1915. Page 112

Charity and scholarship

Damjee instituted three Public Charitable Trusts. First the R. B. Sheth Curumsey Damjee Arogya Bhuvan Trust that has a sanatorium in

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. Second, the R. B. Sheth Curumsey Damjee Mathura Waghora Dharamsala Trust that has a

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in Waghora. Third, the R. B. Sheth Curumsey Damjee Swaminarayan Temple Charity Trust that funds various activities of the

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. An annual scholarship was instituted at the

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after him. This scholarship was worth Rs. 250/- and was given to the top most student among Kutchi Lohana community. Page 333

References

External links

The official website of the Rao Bahadur Sheth Curumsey Damjee Arogya Bhuvan Trust

The official website of the Rao Bahadur Sheth Curumsey Damjee Swaminarayan Temple Charity Trust

The Swaminarayan Samraday official Website - Ahemdabad Gadi

The Swaminarayan Sampraday official Website - Vadtal Gadi
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