This article is about the Indian businessman. For other uses, see Mohammad Yousuf.
Mohamed Yusuf (Sindhi: محمد يوسف, also known as Sir Mohammed Yusuf – Sindhi: سرمحمد يوسف), (born 1876; died 15 September 1965),[1] was an early 20th century Indian businessman and philanthropist. He was the proprietor of Bombay Steam Navigation Company.[2] The Yusuf family own vast amounts of land in Mumbai and the vicinity and is one of the ten largest private landowners in Mumbai.[3]
Life and familyedit
Mohamed Yusuf belonged to a Kutchi Memon family which trace his roots to modern Gujarat, and was the only son of HajiIsmail Hasham. In 1894, at the age of 18, he joined his father's company. The Bombay Steam Navigation Company was engaged in trade along the Konkan coast, and Mohammed Yusuf helped his father expand these activities.
In 1910, he obtained Nhava island and subsequently estates in Jogeshwari (Mumbai) from the then British Indian government, on a 999-year lease and established a nautical college (Training Ship Rahaman – 1910), girls' school, dispensary and an educational institute (Ismail Yusuf college – 1923). He founded a school for the sons and orphans of seafarers at Worli in 1910: it was reopened as Lady Khatun Marium School in 1990.[4]
Mohamed Yusuf was married to Khatun Marium and the couple had two sons of whom Abdul Rahaman Yusuf (Sindhi: عبدالرحمان يوسف) was the eldest.[6][7]
Mohamed Yusuf died on 15 September 1965. He is buried at the family mausoleum at the family house and estate Samandar mahal (Jahaz point, Worli). Ever year, on his death anniversary, a ceremony is performed by the cadets of Training Ship Rahaman at his mausoleum.
Legacyedit
Sir Mohamed Yusuf Seamen Welfare Foundation (founded 1910)
^. TS Rahaman Official Website. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
^جي. ايم. سيد, ed. (2005) [1965]. رهاڻ (in Sindhi) (Official تيون ed.). [Location] ڄام شورو: [Publisher] سنڌي ادبي بورڊ. HTML page No.6. Retrieved 29 September 2013. (سهيڙ بندڙ جي. ايم. سيد.)(in Sindhi) and Mr. Abdul Rahaman Yusuf had two sons. Mr. Faruq A. R. Yusuf is currently Sole Executor of the Estate left behind by the Sir. Mohamed Yusuf. [Syed, G.M., ed. (2005) [1965]. Rehan (web ed.). Jamshoro (Pakistan): Sindhi Adabi Board. (Compiled by G.M. Syed.)]
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