Family
Birla family
From Pilani, in the Shekhawati region
One of the prominent Marwari families of Shekhawati, from the town of Pilani in Jhunjhunu district.
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Why this is listed
“Chirawa and Nawalgarh (today towns in modern-day Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan) have for some reason historically produced the largest concentration of prominent Marwari business families. The Dalmias, for example, are from Chirawa itself, while the Birlas are from Pilani, a distance of 17 kilometres. Nawalgarh, which produced the Goenkas, Khaitans, Poddars, Kedias, Ganeriwalas and Murarkas, is only 60 kilometres away. The Singhanias, Bajajs, Mittals, Ruias and Sarafs hail from other nearby towns and villages.”
Marwaris' unique talent for business comes from one quality. It's called 'baniya buddhi'theprint.in
“Thus, the existence of “great firms” such as Tarachand Ghanshyamdas, founded by the Poddar of Ramghar, and Sevaram Ramrikhadas, founded by the Singhania family, was a critical element in enabling the exodus of the Marwaris. For example, it was in Tarachand Ghanshyamdas’s Calcutta office (gaddi) that the Birlas started as brokers [Timberg 1978:146].”
Hometowns of the Marwaris, Diasporic Traders in Indiasrc-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp
Family tree
The members of the Birla 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.
Founded
Birla family — G. D. Birla. · Grasim Industries Limited
- About Us — Grasim Industries Limitedgrasim.com
“1947 was a watershed year for India, Mr G.D. Birla envisioned that the country would face an acute shortage of cotton, and man-made fibres would be needed to supplement textile fibre availability for clothing. Grasim was incorporated just 10 days after India’s independence, and thus began Grasim’s journey, which mirrors India’s growth story.”
- About Us — Grasim Industries Limitedgrasim.com
Birla family — G. D. Birla. · Birla Education Trust, Pilani
- Overview | Birla Education Trust, Pilanibet.org.in
“Birla Education Trust, Pilani was registered in 1929, as a Charitable Trust, in Calcutta, by Shri G. D. Birla, the foundation, thus, being laid for the establishment and onward growth of educational institutes, in Pilani.”
- Overview | Birla Education Trust, Pilanibet.org.in
Birla family — Baldeo Das Birla and Jugal Kishore Birla. · Laxminarayan Temple (Birla Mandir), New DelhiAggregated source
- Birla Mandirshribirlamandir.co
“The construction of the temple, dedicated to Lakshminarayanji, started in 1933. The same was built by Raja Baldeo Das Birla, an industrialist and philanthropist and his son Danveer Jugal Kishore Birla of the Birla family.”
- Birla Mandirshribirlamandir.co
Birla family — B. M. Birla. · Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
- BIT Mesra | Premier Institute for Engineering, Management and Sciencebitmesra.ac.in
“Welcome to the Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, one of the oldest Institute of Technology in independent India, founded in 1955 by the visionary industrialist and philanthropist Mr. B.M. Birla.”
- BIT Mesra | Premier Institute for Engineering, Management and Sciencebitmesra.ac.in
Birla family — G. D. Birla. · Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
- About - BITS(CRSI-NSC-30) - BITS Pilanibits-pilani.ac.in
“The Institute was established in 1964 by the late Shri G. D. Birla, an eminent industrialist, a participant in the Indian freedom struggle, and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.”
- About - BITS(CRSI-NSC-30) - BITS Pilanibits-pilani.ac.in
Philanthropy
Gave the property on which Birla Industrial & Technological Museum was established. · Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata
- History – BITMbitm.gov.in
“Pandit Nehru received this magnanimous gift from Shri G D Birla in 1956.”
- History – BITMbitm.gov.in
Partitions
The five branches of the Birla family agreed how to separate their businesses. · 1987
- Birlas: The grand partitionindiatoday.in
“The great Birla split finally promises to end the way it began, with reasonable amicability. After months of tense wrangling, exercise of the group's enormous money power (combined assets: about Rs 4,000 crore) on the stock-market, and at times bitter and open dispute, the five branches and sub-branches of the country's leading business family have settled on a modus operandi to separate their individual businesses.”
- Birlas: The grand partitionindiatoday.in
Family
- GP Birla dies at 87business-standard.com
“Though the origins of the Birla family — one of the foremost business houses in the country — trace back to the tiny village of Pilani in the Rajasthan desert, where Shiv Narayan Birla began to trade in cotton in 1857”
- GP Birla dies at 87business-standard.com
- R.P. Goenka, an industrialist with an appetite for risk, dies at 83livemint.com
“Following the footsteps of Ghanshyam Das Birla, one of the Birla family patriarchs, R.P. Goenka started to travel to Mumbai to scout for opportunities”
- R.P. Goenka, an industrialist with an appetite for risk, dies at 83livemint.com