Haji Gokool Meah (1847–1939) was an industrialist and philanthropist. Year 1847 ( MDCCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was born in Kashmir, in what was then British India. This article is about the geographical region of greater Kashmir For usage see British rule in India British Raj ( rāj, lit "reign" in Hindustani) primarily refers to the British He was originally named Modhoo. His father died shortly before his birth and his mother remarried.
As a small child, his family left Kashmir and ended up in Calcutta where in 1852 they signed up as indentured labourers bound for the sugar cane fields of Trinidad. Year 1852 ( MDCCCLII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year An indentured servant is a form of Debt bondage worker The Laborer is under Contract of an Employer for some period of time usually three to Sugarcane ( Saccharum) is a genus of 6 to 37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation of tall perennial grasses (family Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae Trinidad ( Spanish: " Trinity " is the largest and most populous of the two major islands and On January 25, 1853 they arrived in Trinidad aboard the Benares. Events 41 - After a night of negotiation Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Varanasi ( Sanskrit: वाराणसी Vārāṇasī, pronunciation) also commonly known as Benares ( or Banaras (बनारस They were indentured at the Concord Estate in Pointe-à-Pierre. Pointe-à-Pierre is a town in Trinidad and Tobago. It lies north of San Fernando and south of Claxton Bay. After three months, his mother died of malaria and his stepfather took little interest in him. Malaria is a vector -borne Infectious disease caused by Protozoan Parasites It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions including He was informally adopted by a Hindu couple who gave him the name Gokool. A Hindu ( Devanagari: हिन्दू is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, a set of religious, Philosophical
Once he was old enough, Gokool secured his own indentureship contract with the Concord Estate. He renewed his contract once it expired, and then went out on his own. He purchased a donkey cart and made a living hauling sugar cane to the factory at Usine Sainte Madeline, then the second largest sugar refinery in the world. The donkey or ass, Equus asinus, is a member of the Equidae or horse family and an odd-toed ungulate. A Sugar Refinery or sugar Mill is a Factory which refines sugar from various organic sources like sugar cane or beets into a After a few years of this trade, he sold his cart and established a shop in Danglade Village on the road to San Fernando (now part of the Petrotrin oil refinery at Pointe-à-Pierre). The City of San Fernando is the larger of the two major cities in Trinidad and Tobago, and the second largest Municipality Petrotrin, the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago is the major State-owned oil company in Trinidad An oil refinery is an industrial Process plant where Crude oil is processed and refined into more useful Petroleum products, such as Gasoline
He married Rojan and had 17 children, 11 of whom survived. From shopkeeping he moved on to cocoa cultivation, establishing one of the early cocoa plantations in the Diego Martin valley. Cocoa is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which Chocolate is made Fundamentally a plantation is usually a large Farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country on which Cotton, Tobacco Diego Martin is a town in northwestern Trinidad, just west of the capital Port of Spain and east of Carenage. From cocoa he moved on the real estate, becoming one of the major landlords in Port of Spain. Real estate is a legal term (in some jurisdictions notably in the USA, United Kingdom Port of Spain is the Capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third largest municipality after Chaguanas He also established himself as a cinema magnate, establishing the Metro cinema in collaboration with MGM. He later split with them and renamed his cinema the Globe Cinema, eventually operating a string of five cinemas in Port of Spain and San Fernando.
In 1922 he performed the Haj (Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca). Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Hanover Airport, also called Langenhagen Airport with reference to the nearby town of Langenhagen, is situated 11km north of the centre of Hanover Mecca ˈmɛkə also spelled Makkah ˈmækə (in full Makkah Al-Mukarramah (Arabic mækːæ(t ælmʊkarˑamæ مكّة المكرمة, literally Honored In his will, he established the Haji Gokool Meah Trust, a trust to continue the charitable works which had earned him the title Meah (benefactor).
References
- de Verteuil, Anthony. 1989. Eight East Indian Immigrants: Gokool, Soodeen, Sookoo, Capildeo, Beccani, Ruknaddeen, Valiama, Bunsee ISBN 976-8054-25-5
- As Cool As Gokool - Who's Who in Trinidad and Tobago Business 2001-2002.
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