Person
Badri Prasad Poddar
Owned the country's biggest coal mines before nationalisation in 1971
Forbes India names him as the father of Saroj Poddar in the clause identifying that family as Marwari, and records that he owned the country's biggest coal mines before nationalisation and had established large textile mills. The identification is of the family he headed. This publication assigns ethnicity to nobody; it records what has been published, with a link.
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“Born into a well-off Marwari family, his father Badri Prasad Poddar owned the country's biggest coal mines before nationalisation in 1971 he had also established large textile mills.”
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