Sahu Shreyans Prasad Jain (1908–1992) (also spelled as Shriyans Prasad Jain) was an Indian businessman, parliamentarian and a prominent member of the

Jain Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle being ...

community. He was the brother of notable businessman and philanthropist

Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He was the son-in-law of Ramkrishna Dalmia and former chairman of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., Bennett, Coleman. His family, Sahu Jains, owns the Times of India newspaper ...

. He was awarded

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for social work in 1988.

Life

Shreyans Prasad was born in 1908 to the

Sahu Jain The Sahu Jain family is an industrial family of India. They own Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (commonly known as The Times Group), which owns ''The Times of India'', the most-circulated English newspaper in the world. The members of the extended ...

family of

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, related to The Times of India Group and the

Dalmia Group Dalmia Bharat Group, (DBG) is an Indian conglomerate company, which trace their origin to the businesses established by ''Ramkrishna Dalmia'' and Jaidayal Dalmia. The Dalmia brothers established a business conglomerate in eastern India, in the ...

. He took over the India's first

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factory founded in

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(est. 1925), and established the Dhrangadhra Chemical Works in 1939. He was the founder-chairman of this company, which is now known as DCW. His business group consisted of 12 companies in 1965. Shriyans Prasad was a member of

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(upper house of the Indian Parliament) during 1952-1958. He was also the President of the

International Chamber of Commerce The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC; French: ''Chambre de commerce internationale'') is the largest, most representative business organization in the world. Its over 45 million members in over 100 countries have interests spanning every s ...

's Indian chapter and

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during 1962. He also worked as the President of the

Bharatiya Jnanpith Bharatiya Jnanpith a literary and research organization, based in New Delhi, India, was founded on February 18, 1944Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 1, p. 298 1987, Sahitya Akademi, by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain family and ...

, which was founded by his brother Shanti Prasad. Sahu Shreyans Prasad Jain was married to Kamlavati Jain. The couple had five sons, Gyan Chand Jain, Prem Chand Jain, Shashi Chand Jain, Sharad Kumar Jain (d. 2008) and Pramod Kumar Jain. They also had one daughter Saroj, who married

B.D. Goenka Bhagwan Das Goenka was the only son of Ramnath Goenka, a newspaper baron of India. He was a manager of ''The Indian Express'' and had been described as the "inveterate foe" of the Nehru family". His wife, Saroj, is the daughter of Shreyans Prasad ...

. Shreyans Prasad served on the board of directors of the Goenka family's

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Legacy

Several institutions are named after Shriyans Prasad Jain: * Sahu Shriyans Prasad Jain Arts and Commerce College,

(est. 1964) * S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai (es. 1981) popularly known as SPJIMR * S P Jain School of Global Management - offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business courses in Dubai (2004), Singapore (2006), Sydney (2012) and Mumbai (2015) * Sahupuram in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu (location of the DCW factory) * Shriyans Prasad Charitable Trust, Mumbai (offers scholarships) * SPJ Sadhana School, MumbaiAn untold story
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