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

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 d ...

Career

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

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) 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 Deepchand Hinduja, in collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital, the m ...

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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 Gopichand Parmanand Hinduja ( Sindhi: गोपीचंद परमानंद हिंदुजा) (born 29 January 1940) is an Indian-born British billionaire businessman controlling the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group. For many years ...

(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

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