Purshottamdas Thakurdas

Sir[1] Purshottamdas Thakurdas (1879–1961),[2] KBE CIE, was an Indian Gujarati cotton trader, banker and industrialist from Mumbai, India.[3][4][5][6]

He had served as the Sheriff of Bombay in 1920[7] and succeeded Sir Mathuradas Vissanji in 1922 as President of Cotton Association of India (later the Cotton Corporation of India).

He was a member of the Acworth Committee[8] and a member of the Hilton Young Commission.[9] He along with GD Birla then established the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi.[10][11][12][13]

During the early 1930s there was a swing among the Indian businessmen towards a policy of more substantial compromise with the Raj, and they found Irwin, Viceroy of India, anxious to meet them half way:[14] "The 'liberal' and 'moderate' leaders, including the prominent Bombay businessman Purshottamdas Thakurdas, issued a statement from Bombay welcoming Irwin's declaration".[14]

On 12 November 1935, he was elected a member of the Local Board for the Western area of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and was the fourth longest-serving director on the Central Board of the RBI.

Thakurdas was one of the signatory of Bombay Plan,[15] which was set of proposals for the post-independence economy of India.[16][17] He headed the Foodgrain Policy Committee of 1947.[18]

References

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  1. ^ The London Gazette, Tuesday 1 September 1925. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  2. ^ "Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas by Bassano Ltd (whole-plate glass negative)". National Portrait Gallery, London. 20 October 1931. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  3. ^ Sanyal, Amal (15 November 2018). "The industrialists behind India's first national economic plan". Quartz India. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Captains, Put Up A Design | Outlook India Magazine". Outlook. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  5. ^ "जब गवर्नर देशमुख ने अंग्रेज सरकार को RBI से दूर रहने की नसीहत दी." Quint Hindi (in Hindi). 18 November 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  6. ^ Godsmark, Oliver (29 January 2018). Citizenship, Community and Democracy in India: From Bombay to Maharashtra, c. 1930 - 1960. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-18821-0.
  7. ^ Government Of India. Directory Of Bombay City Province 1939. p. 86.
  8. ^ Moraes, Francis Robert (1957). Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas. Asia Publishing House. pp. 30–34. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  9. ^ Tarapore, S. S. (14 November 2013). "The kings of finance". The Hindu BusinessLine. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Abhivyakti IIT Kanpur 2019: 'Startup solution to many socio-economic challenges,' says UP's Additional Chief secretary Alok Sinha". Hindustan Times. 6 November 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  11. ^ P, Samyak; ey (11 June 2019). "G.D. Birla, the man who rose to become a powerful business magnate from cotton mill owner". ThePrint. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  12. ^ Livemint (1 October 2019). "The Gandhi you know, and the one you don't". Livemint. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  13. ^ Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śekhara (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India. Orient Blackswan. p. 362. ISBN 978-81-250-2596-2.
  14. ^ a b Seal, Anil; Baker, Christopher; Johnson, Gordon (15 October 2009). Power, Profit and Politics: Essays on Imperialism, Nationalism and Change in Twentieth-Century India – Volume 15, Part 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 534. ISBN 9780521133869.
  15. ^ Menon, Rashmi (15 February 2016). "The Bombay Plan for economic reform". The Economic Times.
  16. ^ Subramanian, Kandaswami (15 December 2018). "'The Bombay Plan — Blueprint for Economic Resurgence' review: The plan that failed". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  17. ^ "Cotton Association of India". www.caionline.in. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  18. ^ "March of Agriculture since Independence and Growth Trends – Historical Analysis and Examination of India's Agricultural Production and Farmers' Income" (PDF). Report of the Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income. Committee on Doubling Farmers' Income (Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers’ Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare). 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.
Business positions
Preceded by President of Cotton Association of India
1922–1932 		Succeeded by
Haridas Madhavdas


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