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Indian industrialist and philanthropist from Gujarat
- Nanji Kalidas Mehta, MBE (17 November 1887 – 25 August 1969) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist from Gujarat. He found the Mehta Group in British East Africa, with its head office in India. Known as Sheth Nanjibhai. His son Mahendra Mehta, daughter in-law Sunayana Mehta and grandson Jay Mehta now own the Mehta Group.
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Nanji Kalidas Mehta, MBE (17 November 1887 – 25 August 1969) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist from Gujarat. He found the Mehta Group in British East Africa, with its head office in India. Known as Sheth Nanjibhai.
Shri Nanjibhai Kalidas Mehta, the founder of the Mehta Group, was endowed with exceptional entrepreneurial abilities. He was a true humanist who loved people; and philanthropic generosity was second nature to him.
Our founder, Mr. Nanji Kalidas Mehta, left his native land at age 13 in a country vessel bound for Africa. He carried with him a spirit of adventure, determination to succeed and little more than his dreams.
The group, founded by Nanji Kalidas Mehta (1887–1969), who was born in India in the late 19th century. In 1900, at the age of 13 years, he migrated to Uganda and started a series of businesses that included a tea plantation, a cotton ginnery, a sugarcane plantation and a sugar factory.
Apr 13, 2021 · Nanji Kalidas Mehta, the company founder, was one of the earliest entrepreneurs and foremost Indian pioneers in Uganda (Nair Reference Nair 2001).
- Savita Nair
- 2018
This article is a study of the autobiography of Nanji Kalidas Mehta (1887– 1969), a Gujarati entrepreneur who arrived in east africa as a young boy and retired in his old age as the founder of a major multinational conglomerate, the Mehta Group of Companies. i locate in his autobiography one of the mythological charters of the indian presence ...
Nanji Kalidas Mehta, the Gujarati plantation owner and industrialist who first sailed across the Indian Ocean to East Africa at the turn of the twentieth century, is widely known in the region for the large business firms that he founded. Such businesses include sugar plantations and processing plants
