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Another remarkable person mentioned in the Encyclopedia is Khan Rahim Baksh
Khan who was " the first Muslim industrialist to venture into manufacture of paint
industry, by setting up a paint plant in Hyderabad, Deccan, India, in 1933 which
was to provide nucleus of five industries in a new industrial township called
Rahimabad near Hyderabad Deccan. On migration to Pakistan, he set up a paint
manufacturing factory at Karachi in 1949, added two more, one in Karachi and
one in East Pakistan. He set up a joint venture in Lebanon, managed by Buxlay
Paints, became the biggest exporter of paints from Pakistan in 1970 and was
reported to have set up Khan Rahim Paint Research Institute in Karachi. Nothing
is known today about Khan Rahim Baksh or his institute.
Amir Sultan Chinoy who died in Karachi on January 21, 1998 was famous for
interest in horse racing and the famous Manjri Stud Farms Ltd. After migrating to
Pakistan he founded Pak Chemicals Ltd, the first major chemical industry to be
established in the country. His father, Sir Sultan Chinoy is reported to have
introduced Shell Petrol, Chevrolet cars, wireless telegraphy and broadcasting
equipment in India.
Other industrialists of considerable means and repute who streamed to Pakistan
at the time of independence included Ahmad Jaffer, Mohammad Ali
Rangoonwala, C M Latif of Batala Engineering Company, Dost Mohammad Haji
Monnoo and Habib Ahmad Haji (Aragwala) of Batava, Kathiawar, who was
running grain and oil seed business in Calcutta with 50 branches all over India.
Syed Maratib Ali was a well known name in the undivided India and his mansion
Ashiana in Lahore was counted among the wealthiest houses in th region.
Tabanis had set up their offices in Singapore, Japan and London as early as
1916.
A microscopic business community from Chiniot in Central Punjab became a
dominant industrial force in the 1990. At the time of creation of Pakistan they
were exclusively engaged, with the exception of Colony / Maula Baksh group, in
trade of hides and skins.
A few Muslim industrialists stayed back, prospered and flourished in India. For
example the Monopoly Commission of India in 1965 identified one House of
Amin, as one of the leading industrial groups of India. It was trilateral venture by
B D Amin, an agriculturist from Gujrat, with partners T K Jaggar and A S
Kotibakshkar. The Descondents of the two Hindu partners however, claimed that
no group with this name ever existed.
But the names mentioned above were random success stories of Muslims in the
Indian Sub-continent. It was the creation of Pakistan in 1947 which gave the
opportunity of life time to people who were to grow into the 22 families in the
1960.
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