Harchandrai Vishandas

Warning Display title Sir Seth Harchandrai Vishandas was ignored since it is not equivalent to the pages actual title. Diwan Bahadur Sir Seth Harchandrai Vishandas PC KCIE CSI KIH QC MA LL.B. , was an Indian attorney, politician and former mayor of Karachi. He is considered a great Sindhi and the father of modern Karachi. His social, educational, and political services rendered to the people of Sindh are so great that he is now recognised as one of the makers of modern Karachi. He was one of the first six Sindhi young men who graduated from Elphinstone College, Bombay, before 1887.

Seth Harchandrai Vishandas was born in May 1862, in a village Manjhu in tehsil Kotri, Sindh. He relates to a Bharvani family, known for its publicspirited members. He achieved his primary education in a school founded by Seth Vishandas Nihalchand, father of Seth Harchandrai in his birthplace Manjhu. After completing his primary, he was sent to Kotri for middle education in missionary school of Kotri and used to live there in a spacious bungalow with great comfort. After that he got admitted in NJV High School in Karachi. He matriculated in 1878 and went to live with his maternal grandfather.

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