Family
Bangur family
Named among India's leading Marwari business houses
One of four Marwari houses that together held a third of the assets of India's top ten business houses as of 1986.
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Why this is listed
“As of 1986, the Birlas, the Singhanias, the Modis, and the Bangurs (all Marwari business houses) accounted for one third of the total assets of the top ten business houses in India [Dubashi 1996 cited in Hardgrove 2004:3].”
Hometowns of the Marwaris, Diasporic Traders in Indiasrc-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp
“In the social hierarchy of the Marwari business community, we were at best on the third rung. Families like the Birlas, Singhanias, Bangurs, Dalmias, Somanis, Goenkas, Sarafs, Poddars, Khaitans and a few dozen others who had transformed themselves from traders to industrialists in the early part of the last century, were at the top.”
Marwaris' unique talent for business comes from one quality. It's called 'baniya buddhi'theprint.in
Family tree
The members of the Bangur family this record documents, and the parent links between them. Every link is a cited claim; each person’s page carries its source. Only people who have died or who hold a public role appear.
Partitions
The Bangur group was divided into five groups among the founders' grandsons. · 1991
- The Problems Of An Ageing Treebusiness-standard.com
“The Bangurs split into five groups in 1991. The group with interests in almost every industry in India was carved up between the grandsons of Mungee Ram and Ram Coowar Bangur, the brothers who had set up the empire sometime towards the end of the 19th century. The five inheritors were: Balbhadra Das, Shree Niwas, Shree Kumar and Purshottam Das-Benu Gopal (all grandsons of Mungee Ram) and Laxmi Niwas (grandson of Ram Coowar).”
- The Problems Of An Ageing Treebusiness-standard.com
Family
Source for the figures above
- The Problems Of An Ageing Treebusiness-standard.com
“The Bangurs split into five groups in 1991. The group with interests in almost every industry in India was carved up between the grandsons of Mungee Ram and Ram Coowar Bangur, the brothers who had set up the empire sometime towards the end of the 19th century. The five inheritors were: Balbhadra Das, Shree Niwas, Shree Kumar and Purshottam Das-Benu Gopal (all grandsons of Mungee Ram) and Laxmi Niwas (grandson of Ram Coowar).”