Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja (1900–1971) was an Indian businessman, the founder of the

Hinduja Group Hinduja Group is an Indian Conglomerate (company), 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 proj ...

Career

Hinduja was of Sindhi origin. Hinduja was responsible for establishing trading links between India and Persia (now

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

) in 1919. He founded the

P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre The P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre is a multi-specialty, tertiary-care hospital in Mumbai, India. It was founded in 1951 by Parmanand Hinduja, Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Gener ...

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, 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 (born 1945) *Ashok Hinduja (born 1950)

References

1900 births 1971 deaths Parmanand Businesspeople from Mumbai Indian Sindhi people Businesspeople from British India 20th-century Indian businesspeople {{India-business-bio-stub