The Papers

 Here are a few newspaper articles you might find interesting.

1. The Bombay Gazette 23 Feb 1852

Page 2 (184)


This refers to a Export Manifest for a ship load of  Textiles including a shipment of cotton belonging to Alarakia and Joonus Noor Mahomed. This is Adam Allarakia who is named in the blog 'Hong Kong's First Opium Hall of Fame.

I will endeavour to find out more about this chap and where he fits in the story. He could be of the same generation as Sewjee Alarakia(if so then possibly an older sibling because Sewjee would have only been nine years of age at the time of this article.It is also very possible that he is Sewjee's own father. Strangely enough Adam Alarakia is named as a Parsi on the Opium Hall of Fame which would bring us back to the Persian origins idea again. Watch this space.

2. Times of India 22 Dec 1881

Page 3



A Defamation case aginst Alarakia Ebramani referred to in the article as Alarakia.
Could this chap be one of ours. What was his beef with this seemingly important merchant. He was accused of practicing Zulum cruelty or unjust acts of exploitation, oppression, and wrongdoing, whereby a person either deprives others of their rights or does not fulfill his obligations towards them (from Wikipedia) against the mans daughter amongst other things. Again he is someone that I need to investigate further.


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