Purshottamdas Thakurdas
Sir[1] Purshottamdas Thakurdas (1879–1961),[2] CIE MBE, was a Gujarati cotton trader, businessman and industrialist from Mumbai, India.[3][4][5][6] He was one of the signatory of Bombay Plan, which was set of proposals for the post-independence economy of India.[7] He along with GD Birla established Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry in 1927 on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi.[8][9][10][11] He was a member of the Hilton Young Commission.[12] He headed the Foodgrain Policy Committee of 1947.[13]
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- ↑ The London Gazette, Tuesday 1 September 1925. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ↑ "Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas by Bassano Ltd (whole-plate glass negative)". National Portrait Gallery, London. 20 October 1931. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ↑ Sanyal, Amal. "The industrialists behind India's first national economic plan". Quartz India. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
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- ↑ "जब गवर्नर देशमुख ने अंग्रेज सरकार को RBI से दूर रहने की नसीहत दी." Quint Hindi (in हिन्दी). 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ↑ Godsmark, Oliver (2018-01-29). Citizenship, Community and Democracy in India: From Bombay to Maharashtra, c. 1930 - 1960. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-18821-0.
- ↑ Subramanian, Kandaswami (2018-12-15). "'The Bombay Plan — Blueprint for Economic Resurgence' review: The plan that failed". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ↑ "Abhivyakti IIT Kanpur 2019: 'Startup solution to many socio-economic challenges,' says UP's Additional Chief secretary Alok Sinha". Hindustan Times. 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ↑ P, Samyak; ey (2019-06-11). "G.D. Birla, the man who rose to become a powerful business magnate from cotton mill owner". ThePrint. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ↑ Livemint (2019-10-01). "The Gandhi you know, and the one you don't". Livemint. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
- ↑ Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śekhara (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India. Orient Blackswan. p. 362. ISBN 978-81-250-2596-2.
- ↑ Tarapore, S. S. (14 November 2013). "The kings of finance". The Hindu BusinessLine. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "March of Agriculture since Independence and Growth Trends" -Historical Analysis and Examination of India's Agricultural Production and Farmers’ Income (PDF). August 2017. p. 1.
...a committee under P. Thakurdas in 1947. Also known as the Foodgrain Policy Committee (1947), it studied the aspects related to food distribution, and the main features of its recommendation were gradual withdrawal of control and removal of restrictions on movements of foodgrains.
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| Preceded by Mathuradas Vissanji |
President of Cotton Association of India 1922–1932 |
Succeeded by Haridas Madhavdas |
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