Friday, June 21, 2013

From Merchant Prince to Akbar Brothers: Inayat Akbarally and the Bohras of Sri Lanka

   Groundviews                                        -21 Jun, 2013
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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.