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| name = Alamohan Das<br />
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| birth_date = 1895<br />
| birth_place = Khila-Baruipur, [[Howrah District|Howrah]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], [[British India]]<ref name = "Bose46">Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), (1976), ''Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan'' (Biographical dictionary)'', {{in lang|bn}}, p 46</ref> (now [[Howrah District]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]])<br />
| birth_name = Surendra Mohan Das<br />
| death_date = 1969<br />
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| occupation = Industrialist<br />
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'''Alamohan Das''' (1895&ndash;1969) was a famous pioneering [[Business magnate|industrialist]] and politician.<br />
[[File:Alamohan das statue.jpg|thumb|Statue of Alamohan Das at Dasnagar]]<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Hailing from a poor peasant family in Khila-Baruipur, [[Howrah district]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/a-nagar-named-after-him/cid/188787 |title=A Nagar Named After Him}}</ref> of [[West Bengal]], [[India]], he had little education as a child. He started his business career when he was just 14 years old selling parched rice, small things, but gradually switched over to industrial items. He established the industrial [[township]] of Dasnagar in the Howrah district.<ref>Samsad Bangali Charitbhidhan (in Bengali), p. 33</ref> In 1948, he established '[[Khila Gopimohan Siksha Sadan]]', an educational institution near his locality.<br />
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==India Machinery Co.==<br />
In 1930, he founded the India Machinery Co., which, according to Government reports, was one of the few companies that produced machines of grade 1 category. Amongst the products of the company were [[lathes]], weighing machines, [[textile manufacturing]] machines, and [[printing]] machines.<ref>{{cite book|title = Business History of India |work = p 244 |last= Chittabrata Palit, Pranjal Kumar Bhattacharyya}}</ref> In 1937 he started Bharat Jute Mill.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.telegraphindia.com/1140516/jsp/howrah/story_18344844.jsp | title = A nagar named after him| publisher = The Telegraph, 16 May 2014 | accessdate = 29 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Political career==<br />
In [[History of the Republic of India|independent India]]'s first election in 1951, he won a seat in the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly|West Bengal state assembly]], contesting as an independent candidate from [[Amta (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/electionstatistics.asp |title=Statistical Reports of Elections |accessdate=2010-11-25 |work=General Election Results and Statistics |publisher=Election Commission of India |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101005110118/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/ElectionStatistics.asp |archivedate=2010-10-05 }}</ref><br />
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