Mohamed Yusuf
Indian businessman and philanthropist
Mohamed Yusuf (Sindhi: محمد يوسف, also known as Sir Mohammed Yusuf – Sindhi: سر محمد يوسف; 1876– 15 September 1965), was an early 20th century Indian businessman and philanthropist. He was the proprietor of Bombay Steam Navigation Company. The Yusuf family own vast amounts of land in Mumbai and the vicinity and is one of the ten largest private landowners in Mumbai.
Life and family
Mohamed Yusuf belonged to a Kutchi Memon family which trace his roots to modern Gujarat, and was the only son of Haji Ismail Hasham. In 1894, at the age of 18, he joined his father's company. The Bombay Steam Navigation Company was engaged in trade along the Konkan coast, and Mohammed Yusuf helped his father expand these activities.
In 1910, he obtained Nhava island and subsequently estates in Jogeshwari (Mumbai) from the then British Indian government, on a 999-year lease and established a nautical college (Training Ship Rahaman – 1910), girls' school, dispensary and an educational institute (Ismail Yusuf college – 1923). He founded a school for the sons and orphans of seafarers at Worli in 1910: it was reopened as Lady Khatun Marium School in 1990.
He was knighted in 1914.
He supported the swadeshi movement; was a patron of the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya and was a close friend of its founder Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.
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