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Parmanand Hinduja
Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja (1900–1971) was an Indian businessman, the founder of the Hinduja Group. Career Hinduja was of Sindhi origin. Hinduja was responsible for establishing trading links between India and Persia (now Iran) in 1919. He founded the P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Mumbai, and the Hinduja Foundation. Personal life He married Jamuna Parmanand Hinduja, and they had five sons: *Girdhar Hinduja (1930–1963), who later married Lalita Girdhar Hinduja * Srichand Parmanand Hinduja (1935–2023) *Gopichand Hinduja (born 1940) *Prakash Hinduja Prakash Parmanand Hinduja ( Sindhi: پرڪاش ھندوجا) (born June 1945) is an Indian-born Swiss businessman, the chairman of the Hinduja Group in Europe. Early life Prakash Parmanand Hinduja was born in June 1945, the son of Parmanand H ... (born 1945) *Ashok Hinduja (born 1950) References 1900 births 1971 deaths Parmanand Businesspeople from Mumbai Sindhi people Businesspe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinduja Group
Hinduja Group is an Indian transnational conglomerate. The group is present in eleven sectors including automotive, oil and specialty chemicals, banking and finance, IT and ITeS, cyber security, healthcare, trading, infrastructure project development, media and entertainment, power, and real estate. The Hinduja brothers have around 100 billion dollars of assets around the world. The Hinduja family has around 50 billion dollars of assets in America. The current (2022) net worth of the Hinduja brothers is 32 billion dollars. History The company was founded in 1914 by Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, who was from a Sindhi family based in India. Initially operating in Shikapur (in modern-day Pakistan) and Mumbai, India, he set up the company's first international operation in Iran in 1919. The headquarters of the group remained in Iran until 1979, when the Islamic Revolution forced it to move to Europe. Group Chairman Srichand Hinduja and his brother Gopichand, also Co-Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sindhis
Sindhis ( sd, سنڌي Perso-Arabic: सिन्धी Devanagari; ) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who speak the Sindhi language and are native to the province of Sindh in Pakistan. After the partition of British Indian empire in 1947, many Sindhi Hindus and Sindhi Sikhs migrated to the newly independent Dominion of India and other parts of the world. Pakistani Sindhis are predominantly Muslim with a smaller Sikh and Hindu minority, whereas Indian Sindhis are predominantly Hindu with a Sikh, Jain and Muslim minority. Sindhi people have been native to Sindh throughout history, apart from that their historical region has always came from the South-eastern side of Balochistan, the Bahawalpur region of Punjab and the Kutch region of Gujarat, India. The Sindhi diaspora is growing around the world, especially in the Middle East, owing to better employment opportunities. Etymology The name Sindhi is derived from the Sanskrit ''Sindhu'' which translates as river or sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
