Bhai Pratap Dialdas

Bhai Pratap with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

Bhai Pratap (Sindhi: ڀائي پرتاب ڏيئل داس‎), was an Indian businessman, philanthropist and freedom fighter, best remembered as the founder of the towns of Adipur and Gandhidham to resettle refugees from Sindh.

Pratap Moolchand Dialdas was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, on 14 April 1908 into an affluent family. Bhai Pratap was widely travelled and had established his businesses in India as well as internationally. His ethnic as well as international taste is reflected amply in Pratab Mahal, which also had a huge library with books from around the world. After the partition he left along with his family for India and help establish a city for the displaced Sindhi Hindus by the name of Gandhidham in Kutch.

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1. Sindhu Resettlement Corporation, about Bhai Pratap
2. The tale of a neighboring state: The entrepreneurial Gujarat