Abbas Tyabji

Abbas Tyabji was an Indian freedom fighter from Gujarat, and an associate of Mahatma Gandhi. He also served as the Chief Justice of Baroda State. His grandson is the Marxist historian and ideologue Irfan Habib.

Abbas Tyabji was born to an extremely rich Sulaimani Bohra Muslim family of Cambay in Gujarat. He was the son of Shamsuddin Tyabji and grandson of Mullah Tyab Ali, a merchant who had made an immense fortune in the opium trade with China. His fathers elder brother was Badruddin Tyabji, a judge of the Bombay High Court and an early, loyalist president of the Indian National Congress.

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