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'''Curumsey Damjee''' (also spelled Karamsi or Kasamshi Damji) [[Justice of the peace|JP]], [[Rai Bahadur]]<ref name=university>{{cite book|title=The Bombay university calendar, Volume 2|year=1925|publisher=University of Bombay |pages=642|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7k0mAQAAIAAJ&q=7k0mAQAAIAAJ}}</ref> (1844-1918)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.matheran.org/aboutus.html |title=Rao Bahadur Sheth Curumsey Damjee (1844-1918) |access-date=5 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208093447/http://www.matheran.org/aboutus.html |archive-date=8 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a noted businessman.<ref name="Gandhi">{{cite book |author1=Mahadev Haribhai Desai |author2=Narahari Dvārakādāsa Parīkha |author3=Hemantkumar Gunabhai Nilkanth | title=Day-to-day with Gandhi | publisher=Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan | year=1968 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vW1AAAAIAAJ&q=karamshi+damji |access-date=27 March 2009}} Page 205</ref> Hailing from [[Waghura]], a small village in remote [[Kutch]] he migrated to [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai) at a young age and became a very successful businessman, working with the Bombay Port Trust.<ref name="Matheran">{{cite web | url=http://www.matheran.org/about_our_founder.htm | title=About Rao Bahadur Sheth Curumsey Damjee | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516071309/http://matheran.org/about_our_founder.htm | archive-date=2008-05-16 }}</ref><br />
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==Work and award==<br />
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Damjee's company, Curumsey Damjee and Sons, was involved in work at Bombay Port.<ref name="Bombay">{{cite book | author=Sorabji M. Rutnagur | title=Bombay industries | publisher=Indian textile journal | year=1927 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pz0dAAAAIAAJ&q=curumsey |access-date=27 March 2009}} Page 604</ref> He was given the honorific title "[[Rao Bahadur]]" by the then British government in [[India]] for his good community work on 1 January 1899.<ref name="Golden">{{cite book | author=Roper Lethbridge | title=The golden book of India: a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire | publisher=Macmillan | year=1900 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uK9GAAAAIAAJ&q=karamsi+damji |access-date=27 March 2009}} Page 132</ref><br />
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==Religion and community==<br />
The Curumsey Damjee Community Hall at the Dariya Sthan (Kutchi Lohana Mahajan) Masjid Bunder, Mumbai was named after him.<ref name="Matheran"/>{{Dead link|date=May 2012}} He also co-edited a 1902 version of ''Bhramanand Kavya'', an important Swaminarayan Scripture, written by [[Brahmanand Swami]]. A copy of this book was referred to in the Catalogue of Marathi and Gujarati books of the British Museum, Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts in 1915.<ref name="Bhramanand Kavya">{{cite book | author=James Fuller Blumhardt | title=Catalogue of Marathi and Gujarati printed books in the library of the British museum | publisher=B. Quaritch | year=1915 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHsqAAAAMAAJ&q=karamsi+damji |access-date=27 March 2009}} Page 112</ref><br />
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==Charity and scholarship==<br />
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Damjee instituted three Public Charitable Trusts. First the R. B. Sheth Curumsey Damjee Arogya Bhuvan Trust that has a sanatorium in [[Matheran]]. Second, the R. B. Sheth Curumsey Damjee Mathura Waghora Dharamsala Trust that has a [[dharamsala]] in Waghora. Third, the R. B. Sheth Curumsey Damjee Swaminarayan Temple Charity Trust that funds various activities of the [[Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Mumbai]].<ref name="Matheran"/> An annual scholarship was instituted at the [[University of Mumbai]] after him. This scholarship was worth Rs. 250/- and was given to the top most student among Kutchi Lohana community.<ref name="University">{{cite book | author=University of Bombay | title=Bombay university handbook | publisher=University of Bombay | year=1930 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZLOAAAAMAAJ&q=karamsi+damji |access-date=27 March 2009}} Page 333</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070212002720/http://matheran.org/ The official website of the Rao Bahadur Sheth Curumsey Damjee Arogya Bhuvan Trust]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070704081145/http://swaminarayan.org.in/ The official website of the Rao Bahadur Sheth Curumsey Damjee Swaminarayan Temple Charity Trust]<br />
* [http://swaminarayan.info/ The Swaminarayan Samraday official Website - Ahemdabad Gadi]<br />
* [http://vadtal.com/ The Swaminarayan Sampraday official Website - Vadtal Gadi]<br />
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