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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1878|12|13}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1921|01|21|1878|12|13}}<br />
| death_place = Bombay, British India<br />
| occupation = Journalist, writer<br />
| years_active = 1914–1921<br />
| known_for = ''Vismi Sadi'' periodical<br />
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'''Haji Mohammed Allarakha Shivji''' (13 December 1878 – 21 January 1921), also spelled '''Hajji Mohammad Alarakhiya''', was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] [[literary]] [[journalist]] and [[author]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Haji Mohammed Allarakha Shivji was born on 13 December 1878 in [[Bombay]] to a [[Khoja]] [[Isma'ilism|Ismaili]] businessman. He was a native of [[Kutch]]. He studied Gujarati initially at home, and later studied up to the sixth grade at Fort Highschool in Bombay. After 1895, he studied [[Hindi]], English and [[Marathi language|Marathi]]. In order to bring magazine like ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'' in Gujarati, he founded ''Visami Sadi'' (The Twentieth Century), a pictorial periodical in 1914 and published it from 1916 to 1920.<ref name="Kendra2007">{{cite book|author=Smt. Hiralaxmi Navanitbhai Shah Dhanya Gurjari Kendra|title=Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4oMAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Gujarat Vishvakosh Trust|page=457}}</ref><ref name="JhaveriAkademi1978">{{cite book|author=Mansukhlal Maganlal Jhaveri|author-link=Mansukhlal Maganlal Jhaveri|title=History of Gujarati Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA0RAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|page=153}}</ref> He sold three family mansions and invested around Rs 1.5 crore for the magazine. It became popular but he never recovered any money from it. He was a connoisseur of art. He died in an accident in Bombay on 21 January 1921.<ref name=gsp>{{cite web|url=http://www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Alarakhiya-Haji.html#|title=હાજી અલારખિયા|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|language=Gujarati|accessdate =8 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Mahurkar 2007">{{cite web | last=Mahurkar | first=Uday | title=Chronicles Regenerated A century-old Gujarati literary magazine, Visamisadi, has been digitised and given a new lease of life | website=India Today {{Subscription required|via=HighBeam}} | date=2007-08-20 | url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10959426.html# | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505042940/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10959426.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2016-05-05 | accessdate=2016-03-26}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
[[File:Visami Sadi 1916 Magazine cover.jpg|thumb|Cover of 1916 issue of ''Visami Sadi''. Cover Art by [[M. V. Dhurandhar]].]]<br />
Allarakha is best known for his periodical ''Visami Sadi''. He wrote and translated several works under pen name, '''Salim'''. ''Mogal Rang Mahel'' and ''Shish Mahel'' are his stories. ''Meharunnisa athwa Shahenshah Jahangir ane Noorjahan no Prem'' (1904) is his play with [[Urdu]] [[shayari]]s. ''Rashida'' (1908) is his novel.<ref name=gsp/><br />
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Suchet Singh established Oriental Film Manufacturing Company of [[Bombay]] with help of Allarakha in 1919.<ref name="Ro2013">{{cite book|author1=K. Moti Gokulsing|author2=Wimal Dissanayake|title=Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=djUFmlFbzFkC&pg=PA99|date=17 April 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-77284-9|pages=89}}</ref><br />
==See also==<br />
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]<br />
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==References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.gujarativisamisadi.com Restored and digital archive of ''Visami Sadi'']<br />
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