A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Friday, June 21, 2013
From Merchant Prince to Akbar Brothers: Inayat Akbarally and the Bohras of Sri Lanka

Photography by Alefiya Akbarally and Kannan Arunasalam
Inayet Akbarally tells the remarkable story of his great
grandfather Careemjee Jafferjee and how he became the first member of
the Dawoodi Bohra community to set foot in Ceylon believed to be around
1830. A “Peterite” thorugh and through, he reflects on the days when
where you went to school trumped ethnicity and even religion.
