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[[File:Padampat Singhania 2005 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|Padampat Singhania on a 2005 stamp of India]]
'''Sir Lala Padampat Singhania''' (3 February 1905<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhushan |first1=Ravi |title=Famous India, Nation's Who's who |date=1975 |publisher=Famous India Publications |page=172 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1sQ5AQAAIAAJ&q=Sir+Lala+Padampat+Singhania+3+February+1905&dq=Sir+Lala+Padampat+Singhania+3+February+1905&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwmvruuvrhAhVCDq0KHT_VDaEQ6AEILjAB |accessdate=1 May 2019 |language=en |quote=Singhania, Sir Padampat ; Industrialist ; b February 3, 1905 Kanpur}}</ref> – 18 December 1979)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who |date=1982 |page=237 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6kQAQAAMAAJ&q=Samarendra+Chandra+Sen+died+16+1979&dq=Samarendra+Chandra+Sen+died+16+1979&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigneWAvfrhAhUIPK0KHbgKCNYQ6AEIMzAC |accessdate=1 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130702073929/http://www.jkcotton.com/about-our-founder.html Our Founders]. jkcotton.com</ref> was an [[India]]n industrialist and member of the Indian [[Constituent Assembly]]. He had been one time, youngest [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry|FICCI]] president during 1935-36.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Narayanan|first=Chitra|title=The Singhania story|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/the-singhania-story/article22994845.ece|access-date=2021-03-23|website=@businessline|language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==
He was born in [[Kanpur]] into a prominent [[Marwari people|Marwari]] family,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Markovits |first1=Claude |title=Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931-39: The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party |date=2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521016827 |page=212 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-URirZAjjQC&pg=PA212&dq=Sir+Padampat+Singhania |accessdate=1 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> the oldest grandson of Lala Juggilal and son of [[Lala Kamlapat Singhania]]. His brothers were Kailashpat (who owned Raymonds) and Lakshmipat Singhania.<ref>Ashish K. Mishra, P.R. Sanjai (29 July 2015) [http://www.livemint.com/Companies/V3FLJjBVvmPLLKeDTgODmO/Singhania-vs-Singhania-what-went-wrong.html Singhania vs Singhania: what went wrong?] LiveMint.</ref>

He was chairman of the JK Mills, part of the [[J. K. Organisation]]. He was knighted in the 1943 New Year Honours list,<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35841/pages/2 The London Gazette, 1 January 1943]</ref> and invested with his knighthood by the Viceroy of India, the Marquess of Linlithgow, at Viceroy's House (now [[Rashtrapati Bhavan]]) in New Delhi on 23 February.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35951/pages/1373 London Gazette, 23 March 1943]</ref> After independence in 1947, he became a member of the Indian Constituent Assembly and was one of the signatories of the Indian constitution, but chose not to enter politics.<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/what-links-tata-to-singhania--singur-/805125/ "What links Tata to Singhania? Singur!"] ''Indian Express''. 17 June 2011.</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* Sir Padampat Singhania: A Man of All Seasons, Niyogi Books, 2011, {{ISBN|9788189738730}} <ref>{{Cite web|last=Apr 26|first=TNN /|last2=2011|last3=Ist|first3=22:26|title=Guv releases biography of Padampat Singhania {{!}} Kanpur News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/guv-releases-biography-of-padampat-singhania/articleshow/8090495.cms|access-date=2021-03-23|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

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