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{{short description|Indian businessman}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2014}}
{{more citations needed|date = April 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rai Bahadur Amba Prasad
| image = File:RBAmbaPershad.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Amba Pershad at a public function in 1936
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1860
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], India
| death_date = 1950
| death_place =
| other_names =
| known_for = Business, charitable works
| occupation = [[Philanthropy]]
}}
[[Rai Bahadur]] '''Amba Prasad''' (c. 1860 – 1950) was an Indian businessman and philanthropist.

==Early years==
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Amba Prasad was born in [[Delhi]] c. 1860, in an eminent business family. His father, Lala Gopal Rai, and grandfather, Lala Gulab Singh were traders and bankers of Delhi. He studied at the Anglo-Sanskrit Victoria Jubilee High-School.

As a young man he went into manufacturing and trading in dyes and chemicals. He started a trading company, ''Amba Prasad Jadavjee & Co.'' and introduced colorful and graphic labels for his products. He later sold the rights to these labels and trademarks to companies including [[Novartis|Ciba]] and [[Bayer]].

===Philanthropy===
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In 1916 he contributed [[Indian rupee|Rs]] 80,000 to his old school to build a new school building at [[Daryaganj]];<ref>{{cite news|title=The Hindu, Metro Plus, Delhi, sep 26 2005, history of the Anglo-Sanskrit Victoria Jubilee High School|author=R.V. Smith |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/09/26/stories/2005092601180200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061207223908/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/09/26/stories/2005092601180200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 December 2006 | location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=26 September 2005}}</ref> the building is known as ''Amba Prasad Vidyalay'', and is now a registered heritage structure. He was also one of the founders of the [[Hindu College, Delhi|Hindu College]] in [[Delhi]].

He died in 1950, aged approximately 90 years.

==Family==
Bhawani Shanker also built the Amba Cinema named after Amba Pershad, which opened in 1963.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/06/12/stories/2003061200580200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031009062158/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/06/12/stories/2003061200580200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 October 2003|author=Rana A. Siddiqui|journal=[[The Hindu]]|title=Moving images... unreeling history|date=12 June 2003}}</ref> In 1992 another landmark of the New Delhi skyline opened, also named after Amba Pershad, ''Ambadeep Building'' on Kasturba Gandhi Marg, one of the [[List of tallest buildings in Delhi|tallest buildings in Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://delhi-architecture.weebly.com/part2.html |title = Sixties Development continued...|work = Architecture of Delhi|accessdate= 5 May 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061207223908/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/09/26/stories/2005092601180200.htm article in ''The Hindu'']
* [https://archive.today/20130202093418/http://www.sify.com/news/Vintage-cars-at-Auto-Expo-2006-imagegallery-offbeat-jdqo5efgbdb.html?html=5 sify.com]
* https://www.flickr.com/photos/85296574@N00/398184580/

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[[Category:1860s births]]
[[Category:1950 deaths]]
[[Category:Rai Bahadurs]]
[[Category:Indian philanthropists]]
[[Category:Founders of Indian schools and colleges]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Delhi]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from British India]]

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