Gujaratis = 温州人 + 福建人 (I)

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The Gujarati way | Going Global; Secrets of the world’s best businesspeople. Economist, Dec 19, 2015.
http://www.economist.com/news/ch ... people-going-global
("Like the Jews, Chinese, English, Scots and Lebanese, they [Gujaratis] have come to form an impressive global commercial network")

Note:
(1) "One [subject of British Empire who roamed far and wide] was Allidina Visram [1851-1916], from Kutch, in what is now Gujarat state in India. He arrived penniless in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) on the east African coast in 1863, aged 12. He opened his first small shop 14 years later, and soon afterwards spotted his great opportunity. He opened a store at every large railway station along the 580 miles of railway track being laid down through Kenya to Uganda in the early 1900s, providing supplies to thousands of railway workers. He then opened more stores at Jinja on Lake Victoria."
(a) Kutch district
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutch_district
("a district of Gujarat state * * * it is the largest district of India")

Quote: "Kutch literally means something which intermittently becomes wet and dry; a large part of this district is known as Rann of Kutch [in the delta of Indus River, which fills Rann of Kutch] which is shallow wetland which submerges in water during the rainy season and becomes dry during other seasons. The same word is also used in the languages of Sanskrit origin for a tortoise.
(b) Gujarat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, undated
www.britannica.com/place/Gujarat
("Gujarat draws its name from the Gurjara (supposedly a subtribe of the Huns), who ruled the area during the 8th and 9th centuries CE")
(i) Common Era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era
(or Current Era)
(ii) There is no need to read the rest of Encyclopaedia page.
(c) Zanzibar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar
(The capital is Zanzibar City; section 1 Etymology)
(d) Imperial British East Africa Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Im ... East_Africa_Company
(IBEAC; 1888-1896)

built The Kenya-Uganda Railway: "Construction began at the port city of Mombasa[ in present-day Kenya] in British East Africa in 1896, and finished at the line's terminus, Kisumu [in present-day Uganda], on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria, in 1901."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Railway
(e) Jinja, Uganda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinja,_Uganda
(a town; sits along the northern shores of Lake Victoria, near the source of the White Nile)

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(7) "The three wealthiest Indian businesspeople—Mukesh Ambani, Dilip Shanghvi [1055- ; founder and managing director of Sun Pharmaceuticals (founded in 1983 and based in Bombay)] and Azim Premji [1045- ; father in 1945 founded Bangalore-based Wipro (first titled Western India Palm Refined Oil Ltd) as a producer of an edible oil]—are Gujarati. With just 5% of India’s workforce, Gujarat produces 22% of the country’s exports. Reliance, one of India’s largest private conglomerates, is Gujarati-owned. The industrial centres of Ahmedabad and Surat dominate India’s synthetic textile sector. One of the world’s biggest denim factories is in Ahmedabad, which is also home to some of India’s pharmaceutical giants."
(a) Mukesh Ambani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukesh_Ambani
(1957- ; chairman, managing director and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd; born in Yemen; Ethnicity  Gujarati)
(b) Ahmedabad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmedabad
(Gujarat's Sultan Ahmed Shah [ruled 1411-1442] in a forest laid the foundation of a new walled city Ahmedabad "after the four saints in the area by the name Ahmed. According to other sources, he named it after himself")

(8) "The graceful dhows that bore most of the Gujarati trade are still built by hand at Mandvi, on the coast of Kutch.  Under the influence of Muslim traders, and Persians invading from the north, many Hindus were converted to Islam. They now constitute the Muslim sects of the Bohras, Khojas and Memons. This was an important part of the development of a commercial ethos in Gujarat, as after conversion to Islam these communities were relieved of the Hindu restriction on 'crossing the sea.' It was not until 1905 that religious leaders lifted the social penalties against this among the two leading Hindu business organisations. One Hindu group, the Patidars, many of whom have the family name Patel, had mostly been farmers, but as family landholdings were subdivided among the sons, many were pushed into trading in agricultural products such as tobacco instead."
(a) dhow (n)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dhow

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(b) "They now constitute the Muslim sects of the Bohras, Khojas and Memons."

What you have to know is these are Islamic sects: the first one (Bohra) originated abroad and the last two are indigenous. See Bohrā (Muslim sect)
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Bohras
("The name is a corruption of a Gujarati word, vahaurau, meaning 'to trade.' * * * originated in Egypt and later moved its religious centre to Yemen, gained a foothold in India through missionaries of the 11th century. After 1539, by which time the Indian community had grown quite large, the seat of the sect was moved from Yemen to Sidhpur [in the state of Gujarat], India")

Within India (some moved to Pakistan in the wake of partition of South Asia), many in these three sects live in (or around) Gujarat.
(c) "One Hindu group, the Patidars, many of whom have the family name Patel, had mostly been farmers"
(i) "The Indian (Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka) surname Patel: "Hindu and Parsi name which goes back to an official title meaning ‘village headman’ * * * It comes ultimately from Sanskrit pa?t?takila ‘tenant of royal land.’ Among the Indians in the US, it is the most common family name."
Dictionary of American Family Names
(ii) Patel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patel
(section 1 Etymology: The term patel derives from the word Patidar [a relatively new caste created in the 1931 census of India]) Read also sections under the headings of (distribution in Gujarat) and ("Patel Hotel" Phenomenon).

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(4) "These stories point to a couple of outstanding characteristics. Most fundamentally, those Gujaratis who turn to business say that they are constitutionally unsuited to working for other people. For them, the best way to work for yourself is to run your own business, 'to take your destiny in your hands,' as Russell Mehta, the head of Rosy Blue, a large diamond processor, puts it."
(a) Nidhi Nath Srinivas and Sutanuka Ghosal, Meet India's Six Diamond Kings: Nirav Modi, Mavji Bhai Patel, Mehul Choksi, Dharmesh Shah, Ashok Gajera & Russell Mehta. Economic Times, Feb 5, 2013, at page 3 of 3.
articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-02-05/news/36764632_1_nirav-modi-nirav-modi-diamonds-and-jewellery/3
(b) The Indian surname Mehta (can be Hindu, Jain, Parsi or Sikh) means " 'chief' in several modern Indian languages, from Sanskrit mahita 'praised,' 'great' (from mah- 'to praise or magnify').  Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press
(c) The Economic Times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_Times
(an English-language daily; first published in 1961; Headquarters Bombay; Circulation 405,940 Daily (as of December 2013); is the world's second-most widely read English-language business newspaper, after the Wall Street Journal)

(5) "For many Gujaratis the point of acquiring knowledge is to attain practical goals, particularly business goals. The Gujarati word vediyo, meaning a person who studies the Vedas, the ancient Sanskrit texts that constitute the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, has come to mean a 'learned fool.' Ethnic-Indian Americans have applied their practical knowledge to Silicon Valley; they are responsible for about a quarter of all startups there, and a quarter of those are thought to be Gujarati.

(6) "Around the globe, they have come to wield huge influence in the diamond business. An impressive 90% of the world’s rough diamonds are cut and polished in the Gujarati city of Surat, a business worth about $13 billion a year, and Indians, predominantly Gujaratis, control almost three-quarters of Antwerp’s diamond industry. Like the motel owners, the great majority of diamond processors come from just one community, almost all of them tracing their origins back to one otherwise-obscure city in the north of Gujarat state called Palanpur."
(a) Surat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surat
(a city of 4.6 million; By 1520, the name of the city was Surat -- prior to that, ‘Suryapūr (City of the Sun)’ )
(b) Antwerp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp
(a city with population of 510,610 (as of Jan 1, 2014); The Jain [a religion, here not the last name, though some believers of Jain religion are surnamed Jain] community in Antwerp is mostly involved in the very lucrative diamond business; section 6        Economy)

Section 6 Economy states, "According to the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), the port of Antwerp was the seventeenth largest (by tonnage) port in the world in 2005 and second only to Rotterdam in Europe" -- ahead of Hamburg and Kaohsiung (Taiwan), in that order.

However, World Shipping Council places Hamburg on top of Antwerp -- and Kaohsiung right above Hamburg.
(c) Palanpur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palanpur
(section 1 Etymology; The diamond polishing and evaluation industry across India and abroad is dominated by Palanpuri Jain diaspora)

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(2) "Flush with success, Visram was later joined by another Gujarati, Vithaldas Haridas. He arrived in 1893 and was, if anything, even more adventurous than his mentor; he stomped 24 miles through the jungle to the small town of Iganga, where he started his own shop."
(a) Between a rock and a distant, unknown place: Origin of the Madhvani empire. Monitor, May 21, 2012 (under the heading "UGANDA@50")
http://www.monitor.co.ug/Special ... 4jff2z/-/index.html
("In 1908 Muljibhai Madhvani, the man whose name the empire would later take, joined his uncle, Vithaldas Haridas’ business aged 14")
(i) Daily Monitor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Monitor
(published by Monitor Publications Ltd; established in 1994; Language English; Headquarters  Kampala, Uganda)
(ii) Uganda (landlocked; Uganda takes its name from the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country including the capital Kampala; independence from UK in 1962)  Wikipedia
(iii) Muljibhai Madhvani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muljibhai_Madhvani
(Mulji Prabhudas Madhvani (1894–1958), commonly referred to as Muljibhai Madhvani; Madhvani Group)

(3) "Consider America. Having arrived in numbers from the 1960s onwards, Gujaratis now run about a third of all its hotels and motels. Furthermore, this was achieved mostly by just one group, essentially an extended family, the Patels, who hail originally from a string of villages between the industrial cities of Baroda (or Vadodara) and Surat (see map). * * * they own almost half (12,000) of America’s independent pharmacies (as well as one of the biggest chains in Britain, Day Lewis). * * * Bhupendra Patel, for instance, studied medicine in Baroda before coming to America in 1971. He set up a practice four years later, bought his own building in Queens, a borough of New York City, in 1978 and soon had 30 or so doctors working for him. His classmates were certainly impressed; out of 120 of his peers, 90 came to America in his wake.”
(a) Wait until (8) to know more about Patel.
(b) from the website of Day Lewis Pharmacy: "Founded by [CEO] Kirit Patel MBE and his brother JC Patel in 1975, the Group remains a family-owned entity today, having grown from one pharmacy in Southborough to owning and managing over 250 pharmacies in the UK today. Day Lewis employs over 2000 people"
(i) Day-Lewis is a surname in England.
(ii) Order of the British Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire
(section 1 Current classes: Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE))
(c) Bhupendra Patel is an ordinary person, not a celebrity. There are quite a few medical doctors sharing that name (with different middle initials). The one in question has no middle initial; currently an assistant clinical professor in Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, with a clinic at Astoria, Queens, of New York City. Age 70, he graduated from Medical College Baroda, did residency in Long Island Jewish Hospital (internal medicine), and is board certified in American Board of Internal Medicine.