Kavas Jamas Badshah

Kavas Jamas Badshah (also Kavasji Jamasji Badshah) OBE, (1858 Mumbai - 1931) was a senior officer of the Indian Civil Service who retired to Ipswich, Suffolk where he contributed to civil life and served as Mayor of Ipswich.

[1] Badshah was educated at the Elphinstone High School, Mumbai followed by Bombay University.

He passed the exam for the Indian Civil Service in 1877 and took up appointment on 12 November 1879.

[5] He died on 29 September 1919 in Ipswich, survived by his wife and daughter.

[3] In 1913 he was elected for Middle Ward, Ipswich, becoming mayor for the period 1925-6.

Kavas Jamas Badshah, 1898, in official photograph of senior officers of the Post Office of India