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Indian Public School

The first building on the left with wooden structure on top floor is where Indian Public School started. The ground floor was Indian Public Library while the top floor was the school. The building was called Indian Association Building. In 1936, the school then moved to its current location near the Stadium. The name of school was changed to Stadium Primary in 1962. This building continued to function as Indian Library from 1936.

The side room was occupied by M.A.Khan, father of Akram Khan. Later on there was a shop called Goodluck Stores. The building does not exist any more. It used to occupy the space between Lindi Stores and Hirji Gordhandas Building on Ghana Street (formerly Gold Coast Street).

Comment by Jayanti Patel; Photo by Andrew Edwards 1957

1952 Indian Public School Lindi

List of Students in 1952:

1. Raza Pathar Virani

2. Abbas Noray

3. G G Merali

4. Yusuf Khamis RPoncho

5. Hassanali Rajabali

6. Madhu Raichada

7. Ahmed Lodhi

8. Haider Alidina

9. Pyaro Nangoo

10. Gulamabbas Gangji

11. Jaffer Jusab

12. Habib Bhojani

13. Fida Remtulla

14. Chirag Walji

15. Hassanali Ngozi

16. Jayanti Patel

17. Pratap DCD

18. Ashu Mishra

19. Manu Desai

20. Aghu Hassam

21. Shashi Parekh

22. Habib Virani

23. Suresh DCD

24. Mohamedali Rawji

25. Saidi

26. Anil Devani

27. ?? Sampully

28. Gulam Ngozi

29. Anver Remtulla

30. Chagan Patel

31. Govind Koria

32. Khwaja

33. Ranchodji Naik

34. Chhaya

35. R M Sheikh

36. E I Mutvalli

37. Bahadur Sampat

38. Dave (Manager Customs)

39. Gulabbhai

40. Babu Govind

41. Pandya (Drama)

42. Shantilal Sonara

43. Vasantlaben Shah

44. Nandkuvar Mahida

45. Vasantben Vyas

46. Bhanuben Patel (Garba)

47. Bipin Raichada Fui

48. Zainab Lodhi

49. Dinu Popat

50. Anup Bhatt sister

51. Shama Mahida (Harish Raichada wife)

52. Kothari sister

53. Suresh DCD sister

54. Rajni Manek

55. Ila Manek

56. Govind daughter

57. Khairun Lodhi

58. Manjula Kanabar

59. Dulari Raichada

60. Vinodini (Navyug)

61. Shirin Alidina (Sumar)

62. Bhanu Laxman

63. Nargis Paryani

64. Gulbanu Alidina (Dhalla)

65. Vanita Kothari

66. Mohamedali Rawji sister

67. Kusha Majithia

68. Kusha Majithia sister

69. Kunjita Patel

70. Rohini Jamindar

71. Taruna Parekh

72. Mohamedali Rawji sister 2

73. Bhanu Bhimbhai Desai

74. Manjula Patel (Maharaj)

75. Madhuri Sampat

76. Vanita Manek

77. Kusum Vyas

78. Indumati Sampat

79. Madhuben (Gajjar)

80. Vranda Jamindar

81. Daksha Jamindar

82. Dinesh Vaishnav c sister

83. Chandri Manek

84. Miss ?? Mahida

85. Saku Esmail

86. Urmila Popat

87. Zarina Alidina

88. Taruna Ramdas

89. Nargis Bhojani

90. Laila Virani

91. Laila Virani sister

92. Fatma Esmail

93. Pushpa Pujara

94. Virvada Bajaria

95. Miss ?? Shivji

96. Shirin Jadavji Dhanji

97. Manibhai sister

98. Gulshan Shivji

99. Gulam Dewji

100. Bhanu Laxman Mochi

101. Laila Versi

102. Miss ?? Sampully

103. Bhim Goronia

104. Himat Gorania

Stadium Primary Front

Stadium Primary and inside classroom

2008 -Stadium Primary (Photo courtesy Jawad Khaki)

Stadium Primary (Photo courtesy Hassan Pirmohamed)

Different views of Stadium

Stadium Primary Rear views

1968 - Teachers at Lindi Secondary School

1968 - Teachers at Lindi Secondary School Seated L-R Miss Bhatt, Mrs Mathan, Miss Tomlinson, Mr Rweramila (Headmaster), Mrs Kelly, Miss Cropper, Miss Mahida, Miss Jenkins; Standing L-R : Mr Rasul Sheikh, Mr Njombe, Rev. Nkua, Mr K K Naik, Mr Sony Berg, Mr Lodhi, Mr John Kelly, Mr Kassam, Mr Libaba, unknown, Mr Doucet, Mr Nkwamu, Mr Kilindo

July 1968 - Form 4A Lindi Secondary School

Left - Helen Tomlinson (class teacher) Right - Shamim Remtulla; L-R; Row 1: Yasmin Hirji, Yashaswini Sahastrabudhe, Sadru Samji, Shiraz Nagji, Zainuddin Adamjee, Nafisa Tayabali, Batul Dinani; Row 2: Hamisi Gwaje, Bakari Salum, Mehboob Jadavji, Abderehmani Janja, Selemani Mtenje, Vipin Shah, Alnoor Samji; Row 3: Saidi Nahunda, Daudi, Muhibu Samli, Martin Ahmed, Tulo Hoza, Mustafa Pirmohamed, Shiraz Jadavji; Row 4: Athmani Beno, Majid Lodhi, Selemani Kalulu, Aliraza Rajani, Girish, Anthony, Mohamed Manji; Absent: Raza Kassam, Batul Versi

1959 - Teachers of Indian Public School

Standing (L-R): Vasant Ben, Govind, Ranchodji, Chagan, Khwaja, Sitting from Left: Nandkuvar Ben, Vatsala Ben, Gulab bhai, Unknown, I. Mutawalli, R. M. Sheikh

1959 - Teachers of Indian Public School

Last Line(L-R): Trivedi, Chhaya, Kaji, Khwaja, Ranchodji. Standing Middle Row L-R: Ishwarlal Shah, Vasanji, Chagan, K. K. Naik, Pathan, Keshani. Sitting (L-R): Vasant Ben, Nandkuvar Ben, Nand Kuvar's husband, Gulab, Mutawalli, R. M. Sheikh, Vasi

1960 - Lindi Secondary School Teachers

Front Row L- R : E.I, Mutvalli (English, History) T.M. Vasi (English Literature, English Language), D.N. Desai (Head Master), P. Barnwell (Pricipal), Mrs Barnwell, Mr Nachhapa
Second Row L- R: A.V. Shukla (Gujarati, Chemistry, Book-keeping = Accounts), K.K. Naik (Gujarati, Swahili), G.D. Vashi (Gujarati), R.M. Sheikh (Mathematics), Pillai (Physics)
Last Row (L- R) Sahadevan (Geography, Literature, Language), A.K. Pathan (Geography, History), A.L. Jani (Lab Assiatant), N.R. Keshani (Biology)

1970s - Lindi Secondary School Class

Parin Pardhan, Fatma Karim, Late Mustafa Jaffer (tofla), Mauro, Shaukatali Khaki, Nimal singh, aziz Ladhi, Shaukat Remtulla

Lindi Secondary School

Safdar Khalfan, Mukesh, Teacher Kshama Mahida, Nirmal Singh and Parvin Tanna

1968 - Lindi Secondary School from Mtanda Hill

Headmasters of Secondary School (photo by Jawad Khaki)

Stadium School (photo by Bharat Parmar)

Stadium School

Class of 1964 Std 8 (Stadium) and 1968 Form 4 Lindi Secondary
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HISTORY OF LINDI SCHOOLS

Nursery School:

A nursery started after 1955 on the ground floor at the Hindu Mandal building. The first teacher was Kashiben (Mother of Indravadan, Shushila & Neeru Bhatt). Later on, Kashiben was followed by Nimuben Shanghvi (sister of Umed & Vilas Shanghvi) The last teacher was Bhadraben Gajjar (Bhaduben), sister of Manubhai of Africa Garage.

The nursery school at the sea-side was built by Lindi Club members in 1960s. A nursery school was started at Madressa in 1994. It ran for 4 years only.

Primary School:

The first primary school started at The Indian Association building or Indian Public Library. The building was near Lindi Stores. At the moment there is an empty plot. Akram Khan had at one time stayed on the ground floor of the building, with his parents and brothers. There was also a shop known as ‘Good Luck Stores’ that belonged to the Late Chimanlal Pandya.

Stadium Primary School started as Indian Public School in l936. In 1951 there were nine classes. Std. 10 started in 1952 with 12 students. In time, it went up to Standard 12.

Manibhai Patel (uncle of Jayanti Patel of Lindi Stores) worked as a teacher when the new primary school opened its doors. Gulamali, father of Jaffer Gulu and Sheriff Ismail were his students. Mr. Vithalbhai Khare (father of Dr.Suresh Khare) was also Head Master in that school. He retired in 1945.

For two years Prabhashanker K.Trivedi stayed as Head Master. He was a very adventurous teacher. During his time he took children to Newala and to the Mozambique border. He also took students to Mikindani. He used to take students to Mpilipili, Mtanda and Wireless Hills on foot. Later he went to India and joined the School inspection department. He had 850 schools’ inspection under him in Kheda District alone. Later he was appointed as Head of all schools in Gujarat State.

Other primary schools where we had teachers of the migrant community were:
● Msinjahili Primary - Gulamasger Sumar
● Mpilipili Primary - Ashraf Virani
● Rahaleo Primary - Roshan A Sumar

Lindi Secondary School:

The secondary school was started in 1959 and was known as Government Indian Secondary School. In those days, secondary school started at Std 7. At the Indian Public School, most of the subjects were taught in Gujarati. The students had to switch to English for all the subjects in Std 7! Later on Standard 7 and 8 were moved back to the Primary School.

Mkonge Secondary School

Mkonge School was built at the current site after moving from Stadium Primary where Form 1 classes had started. The current site was previously The Indian Sports Club. Later on, the playground was converted to Sabasaba Fair grounds. Prior to the sports club, and during the German rule, there was a cotton ginnery on the site. There are still huge pillars of the former ginnery, near the school. From 1950 to 1965 the stairs were used by senior citizens, mostly traders, to spend their evenings (6.00 to 7.30 p.m.) at The Indian Sports Club building.

Among Mkonge School teachers were: Mrs Knox (Headmistress), Baker Hemraj, Jaffer Hasham

Part-contribution by Jayanti Patel and Ashiq Esmail

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