Wassiamull Assomull

Wassiamull Assomull, also known as Seth Wassiamull Assomull Mahtani, was a Sindhi workie who established overseas trading-firm businesses in Singapore, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Hong Kong, China, and Australia. His international company was known as Messrs. Wassiamull Assomull & Co. The company had around fifty-two branches worldwide, with specialization in the trade of Chinese, Japanese, and Indian products (especially silk and curios). Other companies, such as those associated with D. Chellaram, M. Dialdas, J. T. Chainrai, Wassiamull Assomull, and Chotirmal, operated on a similar model based around a transnational Sindhi-origin family.

Career Wassiamull Assomull & Co. advertisement published within The Brisbane Courier (Wednesday, 17 December 1902) Wassiamull's family originated from Hyderabad in Sindh but migrated overseas in 1840. In 1864, Wassiamull began a textile business in Singapore and is believed to have been the first Sindhi to visit Singapore.

Establishing diasporic Sikh gurdwaras A civilian gurdwara was established at Queen Street in Singapore in 1912 on property purchased by a committee of Sikhs led by Wassiamull. The Sindwork firm Wassiamall Assomull donated funds toward the construction of a gurdwara in Manila in the Philippines in 1933.