Gogia pasha biography of william

Many magicians around the globe have become famous by pretending to be from a far-off land. Gogia Pasha pretended to be an Egyptian for most of his career. He was born Danpat Rai Gogia in 1910 in the Multan district of Pakistan, and after partition, he moved to Dehradun.

His father was a Minakari jeweler whose failing business problems left the family in debt.

Gogia moved to England, where he took up conjuring after watching a performance by a British magician in the late 1920s.

Pabrai's grandfather was a famous magician, Gogia Pasha, who toured the world posing as a mysterious Egyptian.

After the show, he went up to the performer and suggested how to improve some of his tricks. The English magician made him his apprentice and left him his equipment when he died in 1929.

Gogia returned to India and added Pasha to his name.

He grew a goatee, giving him a slightly wicked look, donned a turban and shimmering robes, and became known as the ‘Gilly Gilly’ man, after the Egyptian slang for magic.

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