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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}<br /> {{Unreferenced|date = January 2015}}<br /> {{Infobox Politician (general)<br /> |name = Dhirajlal Mahashankar Vishwanath Thaker<br /> |image =<br /> |title= Paymaster General of the [[Port of Karachi]]<br /> |term_start=circa 1925 <br /> |term_end=1947<br /> |predecessor=<br /> |successor=<br /> |birth_date = 1897<br /> |birth_place = [[Wadhwan]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]<br /> |residence = [[Karachi]], [[British India]]<br /> |death_date = 1947<br /> |death_place = [[Surendranagar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]<br /> |office = <br /> |party =<br /> |spouse = Mehwa Thaker<br /> |profession=<br /> }}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Dhirajlal Mahashankar Vishwanath Thaker&#039;&#039;&#039; (1897–1947) was a [[British India|British colonial]] official and Paymaster General of the [[Port of Karachi]]; the largest wheat and cotton exporting port in [[British India]] prior to [[partition of india|partition]], currently the largest port in [[Pakistan]]. He was the son of [[Mahashankar Vishwanath Thaker]], Chief Treasurer of the [[Princely State]] of [[Limbdi]] under [[Jhala]] [[Rajput]] rule and nephew of [[Pranjivan Vishwanath Thaker]], [[Diwan (title)|Diwan]] of the [[Princely State]] of [[Vadia (princely state)|Vadia]].<br /> <br /> As effective Chief Financial Officer of the port, he reported directly to the [[Paymaster General]] of the [[United Kingdom]] on behalf of the [[Karachi Port Trust]] and was instrumental in developing the [[Port of Karachi]] as the main air entry into India. When [[Pakistan]] was created in 1947, the [[Port of Karachi]] was its capital, major seaport, and the country’s center for industry, administration, and business.<br /> <br /> In 1900 at the age of three, he moved to [[Karachi]] from [[Gujarat]] with his father and four brothers. Prior to 1920 he returned to [[Gujarat]] to marry and subsequently raised five children. In 1947 he died of throat cancer after migrating modern-day [[Pakistan]] following the [[Partition of India|independence]] in 1947.<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Thaker, Dhirajlal}}<br /> [[Category:People of British India]]<br /> [[Category:People from Gujarat]]<br /> [[Category:1897 births]]<br /> [[Category:1947 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Chief financial officers]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{India-bio-stub}}</div>

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