1) The Plywood market at Abdul rehman st and Jamli Mohalla was once controlled by bohra traders but since quite a few years it is now dominated by hindu gujaratis.
2) The Ball Bearing business especially at Nagdevi st was once controlled by bohra traders but again it has been taken over by gujaratis and marwaris and only a handful of bohras are left.
3) The Industrial and Building Hardware business at A.R.St, Nagdevi st and khokha bazar was once under the domain of bohra traders but again this too is now a virtual monopoly of gujaratis and marwaris.
4) The Glass Business was a virtual monopoly of the bohras like Dastoor, Kohinoor brand mirrors and Crown mirrors but now the bohras have almost no say in this business and the trade is controlled by kutchis, gujratis etc. The Kohinoor brand mirror used to enjoy an almost a monopoly status some years ago and the bohra owners were hardcore fanatics of kothar but ultimately they came to blows and split.
5) The Ship breaking business at darukhana was once the monopoly of the likes of Bagasrawalas, Upletawalas, Vahanvatis and other rich bohras but now these names are hardly remembered.
6) The famous Drum and bucket factory, "Tayyabi Bucket Factory" owned by Baldiwalas closed down 2 decades ago. Another very old drum factory "Bombay Drums Mfrs" closed down a decade ago.
7) The very famous and the biggest stationery store of Mumbai, "Bombay Stationery Mart" at P.M. Road, Fort which was owned by a bohra family closed down 2 decades ago.
The Dhrangadhrawalas who had a few shops at Nagdevi and who once owned the famous Radio Hotel near Musafirkhana are almost nowhere to be seen.9) The landmark store "Akbarallys" owned by khorakhiwalas are facing very tough times due to the mushrooming of various malls accross the city. Their pharmacuetical arm, "Wockhardt" has a huge debt of more then 2000 crores.
10) The once very rich Lacewala family who had a bunglow at Nepeansea Road which is the most prime area of mumbai are in a very deep financial mess and the siblings are staying in rented houses in poona. This family was EXTREMELY close to the dai and have showered crores to the dai during their heydays. The head of the family, Mr.Akbarbhai couldnt get a place for himself in nariyalwadi kabrastan due to his ill financial health and was ultimately buried at Kurla kabrastan which is known as the poor mans kabrastan in bohras. The crores that he showered on the dai and his zaadas turned out to be a wasteful expenditure.
11) The glamour and pomp of the once famous Mohamedbhai Munim who owned York House in upmarket colaba and who was once a diehard dai fan is no more visible.
12) The Matcheswala family of Nagdevi st who were shipowners and who had given scores of ziafats to the 51st dai and who had an exclusive and beautifully furnished room at nagdevi specially for the dai which was otherwise locked for the rest of the year saw their empire crumble and at which time the zaadas and dai vanished like "ghade ke sar pe se sing". Even their head of the family was refused burial at naryalwadi but after much coaxing, cajoling and crying by his son, kothar relented.
13) The famous Bamboat family who owned a bungalow at Carter road, Bandra where the 51st dai made innumerable appearences had to sell off their bungalow to the late actor Rajendra Kumar who then sold it to Rajesh Khanna and which is now known as "Aashirwad Bungalow".
The Mumbai list itself is endless so just think about the rest of the world. When these abdes claim that bohras of today have prospered more then they are living in fantasyland and have only to study the graph and statistics of various communities worldwide and see for themselves as to how rapidly others have prospered as compared to bohras. Even the Backward class and Scheduled tribes and dalits have increased their wealth tenfolds. The recent examples of Mayawati and A.Raja who are both dalits is a fit case for study, not to forget the umpteen number of high ranking beauracrats and govt officials who are dalits and who have amassed wealth highly disproportionate to their known source of income.
) so they are ahead. But now you will see the bohra traders have become more arrogant in thier approach towards their customers. They keep their profit margin high as they have double exp to bear (1) of their own house hold and of their Royal Family. Gujrati/ Marwari/Sindhis never let their customers go, also they support the other family members to grow. But our bohra brothers are more happy in pulling down the person who is growing.