Background
Seth Vishandas was born in Manjhu, a village in tehsil Kotri, Sindh of British India in 1843 AD. He was a pure Sindhi as his father and mother both were of Sindhi origin.
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Seth Rai Bahadur Vishandas Nihalchand
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Career
He belonged to a merchants, land-owners bhavnani family which was settled in Sindh of British India. Seth Vishandas had settled many of cotton ginning, cotton bailing-press and rice thrashing factories in different places of Sindh as in Manjhu, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Dadu and Badin. He also took part in political and social services.
Birth and education
When he was only 18years old when he left his home for a seek of a teacher.
He walked all the way from Sindh to Punjab where near Lahore he found a famous saint Gulabdas with whom he stayed for a long time and instructed. Family
Seth Vishandas married to Seth Dunimal Tilokchandani’s (a businessman from Manjhand) daughter Beejhalbai and had three sons.
Seth Harchandrai Vishandas, a famous lawyer and politician. He is also known as father of modern Karachi was the eldest son of Vishandas.
Seth Sukhdev Udhavdas, a landlord and cotton merchant born in Manjhu in 1896 and died at his birthplace in 1932.
And Seth Srichand. Seth Vishandas had also four daughters. Gungalbhai, Panjalbai, Motibai and Chandibai.Seth Vishandas father’s name is Seth Nihalchand Lakhmichand (1798–1865) who was born in Manjhu and had a brother Lilaram.
Mercantile background
Seth Vishandas had much vast lands and commerce, which after on management, brought him in the list of wealthiest men in Sindh.
He was a landlord of the time and running cotton ginning, cotton bailing-press and rice thrashing factories at Manjhu, Nawabshah, Badin, Dadu and Hyderabad. He was a big timber contractor and he allowed the poor to sell wood to make a living and also permitted them to graze their cattle on his land. Local and political affairs
He attended first, second, third session of Indian National Congress.
He and Harchandrai served as Chairman and Secretary of reception committee in that session.
He was a member till his death of Karachi District Local Board and the president of Kotri Tehsil Local Board. The deti-Leti system was fostering in Hindu society, to provide radical cure to this disease, he composed a book and sent free to different Panchayats.
He then started visiting village to village, town to town, instructing Panchayats and educating public. At his place of birth, Manjhu, he founded a school, he built a library in Kotri.
At Hyderabad where he had taken up residential quarters, known as Vishin Nagar, he opened a school, a hospital, a Rest house and a grain shop.
In cr of his role as a social reformer, he was conferred with the title of Rai Bahadur. Afflicted by asthma problem, Seth Vishandas was died in 1929, in Hyderabad, Sindh. Vishandas’ another son, after 3 years of his death, Seth Srichand was died in Manjhu in 1932.
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January 1, 1929 (aged 86) -
Political Party
Indian National Congress