Shantidas Jhaveri (ISO 15919: Śāntidāsa Jhaverī; 1584–1659)[2] was an Indian jeweller, bullion trader (sarraf) and moneylender (sahukar) during the Mughal era. He was the wealthiest merchant in the Ahmedabad city during the 17th century.[3]
^Jain Aitihasic Gurjar Kavya-Sanchaya (in Gujarati). Shri Jain Aatmanand Sabha, Bhavnagar. 1908. p. 58. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
^Sheth 2024, p. xiii.
^"Badshahs of Business". The Times of India. Ahmedabad. 12 January 2011. p. 19. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
ShantidasJhaveri (ISO 15919: Śāntidāsa Jhaverī; 1584–1659) was an Indian jeweller, bullion trader (sarraf) and moneylender (sahukar) during the Mughal...
surname Jhaveri are jewellers by profession, the surname indicates that their ancestors must have been jewelers. People with surname Jhaveri: Shantidas Jhaveri...
Gujarat) granted the village of Palitana to the prominent Jain merchant ShantidasJhaveri. The management of the temples was assigned to the Anandji Kalyanji...
jewellers and was a direct descendant of the 16th-century merchant, ShantidasJhaveri. He was the great grandson of Vakhatchand's second son, Motibhai....
descendant of ShantidasJhaveri, a royal jeweler of Akbar and an Oswal Jain from the Marwar region. Khushalchand (1680–1748), the grandson of Shantidas paid ransom...
the Middle East, and Asia—up to China and the Malay Archipelago. ShantidasJhaveri was another 17th-century diamond trader. Golconda diamonds were mined...
direct descendant of ShantidasJhaveri, a royal jeweller of Mughal emperors. Khushalchand (1680–1748), the grandson of Shantidas, paid ransom to the Marathas...
factions over his lifetime. Khushalchand (b. 1680), was the son of ShantidasJhaveri's third son Lakshmichand, and was the first documented member of his...
The periods of the leases were recorded in days. Local merchants ShantidasJhaveri and Khushalchand were legendary diamond traders of the region. Large...
belonging to the Śvetāmbara tradition. It is said to have been founded by Shantidas Zaveri and its leadership has been in the same family for generations...
owner of Varroc, an Indian two- and four-wheeler parts manufacturer ShantidasJhaveri – businessman during Mughal Era Kasturbhai Lalbhai – founders of Arvind...
(VOC) in India also came from Virji Vora and his close associate, ShantidasJhaveri. Virji also lent money to individual Englishmen to finance their own...
mainly found among the Gujarati people. The word "Zaveri" (also spelled Jhaveri) means jeweler, and is derived from the Arabic Javahari. Though not all...
Jahan, granted the Shatrunjaya site and Palitana temples as a gift to ShantidasJhaveri – then the jeweller to his court and the leader of local Jain community...
the Shankheshwar village was a lease-grant by Emperor Shah Jahan to ShantidasJhaveri, a former nagarsheth (equivalent to mayor) of Ahmedabad. In ancient...
Myanmar and others. A wealthy banker, gold merchant and Jain devotee ShantidasJhaveri complained to Shah Jahan, who asked his son Aurangzeb to return the...
Parshvanath Jain temple constructed by the Jain jeweller and banker ShantidasJhaveri, according to the French traveller Jean de Thévenot (1666). Aurangzeb...
Chintamani temple, whose began construction in 1621 and was led by ShantidasJhaveri, is an archetype of Jain architecture in Gujarat from the Mughal period...
Shahi Mahal in 1621 and royal baths in the Bhadra fort. Jain merchant ShantidasJhaveri started building Chintamani Parshwanath temple in Saraspur in 1622...
Ahmedabad, India. Residents may be known as Ahmedabadi or Amdavadi. ShantidasJhaveri, jeweller, bullion trader, and moneylender Ranchhodlal Chhotalal,...
Commissioner's Bungalow) and the Shahi Gardern. 1622 – The Jain merchant ShantidasJhaveri starts the construction of the Chintamani Parshvanath temple at Saraspur...
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