Hinduja Group Chairman Gopichand P Hinduja passed away at the age of 85 in a London hospital on Tuesday. He was the second of the four Hinduja brothers. The eldest, Srichand Hinduja, died in 2023, while the two surviving brothers are Prakash Hinduja and Ashok Hinduja.

Hinduja family and their Iranian past

Before 1979, Iran was a modern, Western-friendly nation and served as the global hub for one of India’s biggest business dynasties — the Hinduja family. The Hinduja Group was founded in 1914 by Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, a young entrepreneur from Shikarpur (then in Sindh, now in Pakistan). In 1919, he expanded the business to Iran, setting up an office in Tehran. Over the next six decades, Tehran became the group’s global headquarters, as the Hindujas built strong trade and business

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