Har Prasad Nanda (9 January 1917 – 13 April 1999),
also spelled Har Parshad Nanda, was an Indian automotive industrialist and the founder of
Escorts Group
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.
Career
Born in
Lahore
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(modern-day
Pakistan
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) in
British India
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, H.P Nanda came to Delhi after
India's independence
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The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged from Bengal. ...
in 1947 with 5,000 INR and two cars. He had started the company as an ''agency'' in Lahore in 1944.
In 1949, he took the franchise of
Massey Ferguson
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tractors and by 1959, he was manufacturing tractors with technological help from
Ursus Factory
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of Poland.
He stepped down as the chairman in 1994.
Personal life and death
H.P Nanda and his wife, Raj, have two sons, Rajan Nanda and Anil Nanda and two daughters, Veena Sakhuja and Nini Srivastava. His wife, Raj, died in 1990. Insurance agent
Ritu Nanda
Ritu Nanda (born Ritu Raj Kapoor; 30 October 1948 – 14 January 2020) was an Indian businesswoman and insurance advisor.
Career
Nanda served as the chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Ritu Nanda Insurance Services (RNIS). She init ...
was his daughter-in-law (Rajan's wife). Industrialist
Nikhil Nanda
Nikhil Nanda is an Indian businessman. Part of the Nanda family, Kapoor family and Bachchan Family, he is the chairman and managing director of Escorts Limited, an engineering company founded in 1944 by his paternal grandfather, Har Prasad Nan ...
is his grandson.
H.P Nanda died on 13 April 1999 after prolonged illness in
New Delhi
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, India.
Books
In 1992, his autobiography titled ''The Days of My Years'' was published.
References
External link
Lahore escort
Lahore Escorts
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1917 births
1999 deaths
Indian chairpersons of corporations
Indian industrialists