Dan Singh Bisht
Thakur Dan Singh Bisht (1906 – 10 September 1964) was a philanthropist from Kumaon division, Kumaon, Uttarakhand, India. At its height, his massive timber depots with attendant offices and bungalows for managers extended across the Himalayas from Lahore to Wazirabad in what later became Pakistan, Jammu to Pathankot, Kartanya Ghat and Kaurilya Ghat and C.B.Ganj Bareilly, Bihar and Tanakpur, Kathgodam and Pithoragarh and Haldwani to Goalpara and Garo Hills as well as Bardiya district and Kathmandu in Nepal. Vast properties purchased by his father and him at each location led to his immersion in local lore as a folk hero, who rode on a horse, with hands always full to give. At its height his father's company, D. S. Bist and Sons, consisted of Dev Singh Bist, Dan Singh Bist and his younger brother, Mohan Singh Bist. DS Bist and Sons employed over 5000 people and had tens of millions of rupees in business. but was bidding for contracts in the Andamans and even Brazil when Dan Sing ...
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Thakur Dan Singh Bist- 1947
Thakur may refer to: * Thakur (title), a feudal title and surname used by erstwhile nobility of India * Thakar (tribe), an Adivasi tribe of Maharashtra, India * Thakur village, a residential locality in Mumbai, India * Thakur Anoop Singh (born 1989), Indian actor * Bhaktivinoda Thakur (1838–1914), preacher of Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout India * Mrunal Thakur, Indian actress See also

* * Tagore family, an Indian Bengali family * Thaker, an Indian family name * Thakkar, an Indian family name * Thakor, a Kshatriya Hindu Koli caste in Gujarat * Thakura (other) {{disambiguation, surname ...
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