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{{Infobox person
| name            = Keshav Prasad Goenka
| birth_date      = {{birth year|1912}}
| birth_place     = [[British India]]
| death_date      = {{death year|1983}}
| occupation      = Industrialist
| known for       = Goenka Group
| spouse          = Rukmani Devi
| children        = 5; including [[R. P. Goenka]]<ref name="R. P. Goenka">{{cite web|url=http://purpleopurple.com/biography/Business-Personalities-India/R.P.Goenka.html |title=R. P. Goenka |publisher=PurpleOPurple |date=2016 |access-date=March 23, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403084217/http://purpleopurple.com/biography/Business-Personalities-India/R.P.Goenka.html |archive-date=April 3, 2016 }}</ref>
| father          = [[Badridas Goenka]]
| awards          = [[Padma Bhushan]]
}}
'''Keshav Prasad Goenka''' (1912–1983)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reed|first1=Stanley|author-link1=Stanley Reed (British politician)|title=The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950|date=1950|publisher=[[The Times Group|Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd.]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206/page/n713 679]|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206|access-date=20 February 2018}}</ref> was an Indian businessman, industrialist, and one of the leaders among the earlier generations of the Goenka business family.<ref name="India's Industrialists, Volume 1">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcbBEHHI-90C&q=Keshav+Prasad+Goenka&pg=PA111 | title=India's Industrialists, Volume 1 | publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers | author=Margaret Herdeck, Gita Piramal | year=1985 | pages=430 | isbn=9780894104152}}</ref> His father, [[Badridas Goenka]], was the nephew of Ramdutt Goenka, the founder of the Group.<ref name="India's Global Wealth Club: The Stunning Rise of Its Billionaires and Their Secrets of Success">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiLBD_IpgIkC&q=Keshav+Prasad+Goenka&pg=PA262 | title=India's Global Wealth Club: The Stunning Rise of Its Billionaires and Their Secrets of Success | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | author=Geoff Hiscock | year=2008 | pages=294 | isbn=9780470822388}}</ref> He was credited with contributions in expanding the business group by acquisitions, such as those of ''Duncan Brothers'' and ''Octavius Steel'', two British trading houses<ref name="Why Mamata Banerjee threatens to take over Duncans Goenka group">{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/money/report/special-why-mamata-banerjee-threatens-to-take-over-duncans-goenka-group/20151125.htm | title=Why Mamata Banerjee threatens to take over Duncans Goenka group | publisher=ReDiff Money | date=25 November 2015 | access-date=March 23, 2016}}</ref> and several other business houses.<ref name="An Interview with Rama Prasad, Goenka Group, India">{{cite web|url=http://www.tharawat-magazine.com/interviews/1540-family-business-profile-rama-prasad-goenka-group-india.html |title=An Interview with Rama Prasad, Goenka Group, India |publisher=Tharawat |date=3 July 2013 |access-date=March 23, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121111714/http://www.tharawat-magazine.com/interviews/1540-family-business-profile-rama-prasad-goenka-group-india.html |archive-date=21 January 2016 }}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1969, for his contributions to Indian industry.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=January 3, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=November 15, 2014 }}</ref> Goenka, a [[Marwari people|Marwari]] by birth,<ref name="R.P. Goenka, an industrialist with an appetite for risk, dies at 83">{{cite web | url=http://www.livemint.com/Politics/vQNCmWjJjLMqJOCY2S9pSP/Industrialist-RP-Goenka-dies-at-83.html | title=R.P. Goenka, an industrialist with an appetite for risk, dies at 83 | publisher=Live Mint | date=14 April 2013 | access-date=March 23, 2016}}</ref> was married to Rukmani Devi, and the couple had three sons and two daughters.<ref name="Birth of a Tycoon">{{cite web | url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/true-life/birth-of-a-tycoon | title=Birth of a Tycoon | publisher=Open | date=11 May 2013 | access-date=March 23, 2016}}</ref> [[R. P. Goenka]], the eldest among sons, was the founder of [[RPG Group]].<ref name="Indian Industrialist Rama Prasad Goenka Dies">{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/naazneenkarmali/2013/04/14/indian-industrialist-rama-prasad-goenka-dies/#7832475735be | title=Indian Industrialist Rama Prasad Goenka Dies | work=Forbes | date=14 April 2013 | access-date=March 23, 2016}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[R. P. Goenka]]


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[[Category:Businesspeople from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Indian industrialists]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in trade and industry]]
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