Adamjee Peerbhoy

Adamji Peerbhhai was born in 1846 in Dhoraji, Princely State of Gondal, British India (now Gujarat), in a very poor Dawoodi Bohra family to Qadir bhai and Sakina Banu Peerbhoy.

[1] Adamji Peerbhai started his career at age of 13, as a street vendor in Bombay, selling match boxes but in one of the "rags to riches" stories being helped by two persons in his early life, one Seth Lukmanji and other an Englishman, Lt. Smith.

[2] At one point he employed more than 15,000 workers in his cotton mills[3] and supplied the canvas used for the tents and khaki uniforms of the British soldiers during the Second Boer War.

[1] In 1884, Adamji Peerbhoy had built several properties, Masjid, sanatorium, kabristan, and Amanbai Charitable Hospital on Charni Road opposite the railway station.

Peerbhoy appointed doctors, arranged for vaccines & medicines from abroad and treated the public free of cost at the Amanbai Charitable hospital, for the sake of the nation.