Category: Special Personalities

SIR SETH HUKAM CHAND JAIN (14-7-1874-26-2-1959) Heroic and bold leader Sir Seth Hukam Chand was the jewel and pride of the Jain community.His ancestor Seth Pusaji had settled at Indore in 1787. Seth Sarup Chand, father of Shri Hukam Chand, was married to Jabri Bai. He was religious minded and an intelligent and respectable businessman….

SHRI GHANSHYAM DASS JAIN (23-10-1910—9-3-1975) A prominent hosiery manufacturer of Delhi Shri Ghanshyam Dass Jain led a quiet and religious life from the early start of his career. Son of Sh. Bihari Lai Jain he was born at Multan (Pakistan). After closing school education in 1925 he started looking after the hosiery and consumer goods…

SHRI GIRDHARI LAL. JAIN (1891-11-4-1975)  Greatly religious minded Shri Girdhari Lai Jain was a leading paper merchant of Delhi. He was born at Bhiwani (Haryana). His father Sh. Birdhi Chand Jain (1868-1943) had shifted from Bhiwani to Delhi in 1881 where he had set up commission agency business. He later switched over to brokerage in…

GANESH PRASAD Jl VARNI (1874-5-12-1961) Simple hearted and simple natured, the great spiritual saint Ganesh Prasad Ji Varni was born to his parents Shri Hira Lai and Smt. Ujyari Devi in a middle class Vaishnava family in village Hansera in district Lalitpur (U.P.) Having religious leanings from his very childhood, he used to visit the…

Pt. Gopal Das Baraiya (1867—1 917) Founder of Shri Gopal Jain Sidhanta Mahavidyalaya at Morena and creator of a large number of Jain scholars in the country through this famous centre of learning, Pt. Gopal Das Baraiya would ever be remembered for his yeomen services to the Jain religion. He was born at Agra and...

Shri Firozi Lal Jain (1906-27-12-1971) Religious minded late Shri Firozi Lai Jain was born at Gohana (Haryana) in 1906. After doing matriculation from Delhi in 1924 he served with a contractor at Mathura for about 11 years. He settled at Delhi in 1935 and did property and timber business. M/s. Sita Ram Firozi Lai Pvt....

Rai Bahadur Dwarka Das Deeply religious minded R. B. Dwarka Das, eldest son of Lala Than Singh, was born at Nihtaur in district Bijnor (U. P.) in 1859. While dying L. Than Singh had instructed him to do daily exercise, not to borrow and to earn honestly which Sh. Dwarka Das had observed earnestly till...

Babu Dev Kumar Jain (1876—1908) Genius B. Dev Kumar Jain, grand-son of scholar-zamindar Pt. Prabhu Das and son of B. Chandra Kumar Jain, was born in that rich family at Arrah. In a short lived life of 31 years he earned a good name for his dedicated religious and social services. After the death cf...

Shri Chandmal Saraogi Pandya (3-1-1912—18-12-1974) A foremost industrialist and businessman of Assam, deeply religious minded Shri Chandmal Saraogi was born at Lalgarh (Rajasthan). After matriculation from Calcutta in 1930 he joined there M/s. Saligram Rai Chunni Lai Bahadur and Co. For reasons of his extraordinary business intelligence within few years time he became its Managing...

Pt. Chainsukh Das Jain Nyayatirtha (22-1-1899—16-1-1969) Pt. Chainsukh Das was bom at village Bhadwa in Distt. Jaipur. While only three years old one of his legs was paralysed. He received higher education in Sanskrit and Prakrit at Syadwad Mahavidyalaya, Varanasi and passed Nyayatirtha examination from Bengal Sanskrit Association. Thereafter he was appointed Head Master of...