{"id":15580,"date":"2026-06-02T01:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/gujarati-footprints-across-singapores-200-year-journey-ahmedabad-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:49:25","slug":"gujarati-footprints-across-singapores-200-year-journey-ahmedabad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/gujarati-footprints-across-singapores-200-year-journey-ahmedabad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarati footprints across Singapore\u2019s 200-year journey | Ahmedabad News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ahmedabad: <\/span>It is believed that the earliest Gujarati-speaking persons who set foot in today\u2019s Singapore were the traders who accompanied Stamford Raffles, the British official who captured Singapore from the local rulers and laid the foundation of the city-state in 1819. Parul Trivedi-Shah, in her recently published book, \u201cA Legacy in the Lion City: History of the Gujarati Community in Singapore\u201d, notes that these traders were the Parsi employees of Jumsetjee Jijibhoy & Company that had ships sailing on the Maritime Silk Route.As the book, supported by the National Heritage Board of Singapore, meticulously chronicles the 200-plus years of the community\u2019s footprints on the city-state, what strikes is the perseverance of the early settlers who built businesses, faced Japanese invasion on the island, and yet maintained their presence not only in business \u2014 their primary forte \u2014 but also in art and literature, politics and public life, and education and philanthropy, intertwined closely with Singapore\u2019s history.\u201cI met the elderly community members, got hold of historic records, correspondences and old documents to piece together the experiences of the earliest settlers \u2014 for example, Nagardas Purshottamdas is believed to be the first known Gujarati Hindu to migrate to Singapore in the mid-1880s. His brothers Vadilal and Ojamshee also joined him in 1894,\u201d says Trivedi-Shah.<\/p>\n

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The handwritten notes of Harakhchand Shah from 1894 describe the steamer\u2019s course from the east coast of India to Penang in Malaysia and eventually Singapore, strategically located on the strait connecting the \u2018spice islands\u2019 to the international maritime trade.The history is also that of the enterprise sans boundaries of religion or caste: from Gujarati Sunni Muslims arriving in Singapore in 1837 to Dawoodi Bohras in 1860 to Banias in the 1880s, every community had a role to play. Parsis, Muslims, Hindus and Jains who made the island their hub, and today the Gujarati community of 4,000-5,000 members is a testament to the vibrancy of culture, celebrating Diwali and Navratri and actively participating in the social and political affairs of Singapore.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSingapore has seen businessman Neil Parekh and academician Prof Kalyani Mehta nominated to Parliament, in addition to several prominent doctors, businessmen, artists and professionals gaining prominence in Singaporean society. The Singapore Gujarati Samaj works as a fulcrum of activities, including organising community and social activities, while the Singapore Gujarati School teaches Gujarati language to children,\u201d says Trivedi-Shah. \u201cGujarat is land of lions, and Singapore is known as the Lion City. Thus, it is a unique amalgamation of beliefs and identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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