India’s Wealthiest Village: Dharmaj. A name that sounds ordinary, but its story reshapes everything you know about Indian villages. Nestled in Gujarat’s Anand district, this village has redefined rural India, blending global wealth with a deep sense of home. Here, every family tells a story that spans continents. But their hearts never left this 17-hectare patch of land.

The journey began in 1895, when Dharmaj sons Jotaram Kashiram Patel and Chaturbhai Patel set sail for Uganda. Others, like Prabhudas Patel, made Manchester their home, earning the affectionate title ‘Manchesterwala’ back in Dharmaj.

Govindbhai Patel built a tobacco empire in Aden. Each journey abroad wove a vast and interconnected diaspora. Today, roughly 1,700 Dharmaj families live in Britain, 800 in the United States,

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