*अजु_ अज़ीम सिन्धी शख्सियत स्वर्गीय श्री *भाई प्रताप डि_अलदास* जी पुण्य तिथि आहे। दिवंगत जी आत्मा खे शत शत नमनु ऐं वंदनु।*
! *Bhai Pratap Dialdas* !
*Bhai Pratap Dialdas* (ڀائي پرتاب ڏيئل داس) was born on 14th April 1908. He was an Indian businessman, philanthropist and freedom fighter, best remembered as the *founder of the towns of Adipur and Gandhidham* to resettle displaced sindhi hindus from Sindh after the partition .
Bhai Pratap Moolchand Nanwani , Nukh : Karia (He was known and called as *Bhai Pratap Dialdas* ), was born in Hyderabad, Sindh into an affluent family. Bhai Pratap was widely travelled and had established his businesses in India and abroad. His ethnic as well as international taste is reflected amply in *"Pratab Mahal",* which also had a huge library with books from and around the world. After the partition of Bristish India, he left along with his family for Mumbai and established a city for the displaced Sindhi Hindus. Actually it was two cities that he founded one next to the other by the names of Gandhidham and Adipur, as well as the Kandla Port, in Kutch.
Bhai Pratap died at the age of 59 in London on August 30, 1967. His body was brought to Adipur and cremated in the Nat Mandir
compound where his samadhi was built adjacent to the Gandhi Samadhi.
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