Diwan Kanvalsing Pohumal Malkani:
1 min readDiwan Kanvalsing Pohumal Malkani:
He was the first Sindhi who started the idea of serving Sindh through his famous paper ‘Sindhvasi’ for which he started his famous Premier Printing Press at Hyderabad as far back as 1908. In order to feed the Press with paper, he started his second enterprising idea of opening a shop supplying paper to this province. Thus Messrs. J. B. Advani & Co., Ltd., was started by him in 1912 with Diwan Vasanmai Kishinchand, Mr. Bhagwansing Basantsing, late Diwan Jodasing Harising Advani, late Mr. Gopaldas Khanchand Mirchandani and Mr. Jethmal Thakursing Lalwani as his partners. The shop in those days stood as the premier paper concern in whole of India having branches in Karachi, Bombay, Madras, Lahore, Delhi and Calcutta. (Source: ‘The Colorful Personalities of Sindh’, by M.U.Abbasi)
