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The Rise of Chiniotis
" We serve by setting up industries" Mian Habib Ullah
Chiniot is a small town of 200,000 inhabitants, on the banks of River Chenab, in
district Jhang in Southwestern Punjab famous for the trading skill of its people,
popularly known as the ancestral homes in their native town, then Chiniot might
have the biggest concentration of millionaires per square yard in the world.
Ironically not every resident of Chiniot is entitled to call himself a Chinioti and this
description is reserved for only those and their Descondants who migrated to far
off Indian cities in the late 19th or early 20th century, to eke out a living for
themselves. Those who stayed back, to live on agriculture, even today are not
Chiniotis but Kazis and Syeds.
Out of 100,000 people who proudly call themselves Chinioti, only 5,000 live in
Chiniot and an estimated 2,000 of them are still living in Calcutta where they had
the biggest concentration in the undivided India, with pockets at Kanpur and
Madras. Compared to the Memons who had sailed to far off places, as early as
18th century, the Chinioti's migration was limited to India and today they pride
themselves in the fact that they have not shifted abroad.
At the time of partition, Chiniotis were mostly rooted in leather, hides and skins
trade and there was only one Chinioti group, Mohammad Ismaeel Maula Baksh
group which had ventured and Haji Sheikh Maula Baksh who had set up their
first ginning factory in 1889 and by 1946, when they split, the group comprised 14
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