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'''Amritlal Hargovinddas''' (29 August 1889 – 12 December 1964) was an industrialist, [[textile mill]] owner and philanthropist from [[Ahmedabad]], India.

==Biography==

He was born in 1899 in a [[Khadayata]] [[Bania (caste)|Vania]] family of [[Vaishnav]] parents. He did B. Com and L.L.B degrees and started his career as lawyer in firm of Bhaishankar Kanga. But later joined his family business of money-lending ([[Mahajan]]) on request of his father.<ref name=a>Amrut Samipe by Ratilal Deepchand Desai, 1983, pp:405 Gujarat na Sukh Dukh na Sathi, Sheth Mahajan Shree Amritlal Hargovinddas</ref>

He quickly learned the ropes of business and soon became one of the leading industrialists of Ahmadabad and a [[textile mill]] owner and also later served as president of the Ahmadabad Textile Mill Owners Association, as chairman of Gujarat State Industrial Finance Corporation and various other organizations.<ref>Link - Volume 5, Issues 1-25 - Page 15</ref> He held close friendship and association with another textile magnate of the town, [[Kasturbhai Lalbhai]], and both later joined together for many philanthropic works for the town, especially in field of education. Amritlal Hargovinddas was responsible for bringing truce between Katurbhai Lalbhai and Vadilal Lallubhai Mehta, both business rivals.<ref>{{cite book|title=Business Legends by Gita Piramal|year=1999|page=345|isbn=9780140271874|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gt5WXOQ08DYC&q=AMRITLAL+HARGOVINDDAS&pg=PA345|last1=Piramal|first1=Gita}}</ref> He also had very close friendly relations with national leaders like [[Mahatma Gandhi]], [[Sardar Patel]], [[Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi|Kanhaiyalal Munshi]] and others and donated freely for national purpose.<ref>Inside story of Sardar Patel: the diary of Maniben Patel, 1936–50 - Page 337</ref>

During the drought of 1917 in Gujarat and the floods of 1927, Amritlal Hargovinddas spent his money for the help of poor and needy.<ref name=a/> Later on he joined with Kasturbhai Lalbhai and [[Ganesh Mavlankar]] to start the [[Ahmadabad Education Society]] in 1936, which later evolved into the [[Gujarat University]].<ref name=b>[http://www.aes-ahmedabad.ac.in/ Ahmadabad Education Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927191141/http://www.aes-ahmedabad.ac.in/ |date=27 September 2008 }}</ref> Further, he and his brother Tribhovandas Hargovandas gave a donation in 1936 in memory of their father Hargovandas Lakshmichand to start this college named H. L. College of Commerce. Further, he donated Rs. 500,000 in 1946, upon request of Sardar Patel and [[Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi|K. M. Munshi]] to establish Sheth Bansilal Amritlal College of Agriculture at [[Anand, Gujarat|Anand]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Census of India, 1961: Gujarat|year=1967|publisher=India. Office of the Registrar General|page=188|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IgcdAQAAMAAJ&q=amritlal+hargovinddas}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/NASD/4a7f1db4-5792-415c-be79-266f41eef20a/upgrade-archive-06-14-2007/data/upload-allbooks/disk%203/Jan%20O/ENGLISH/Munshi_his_Art_And_Work__IV/HTML/00000095.htm |title=In September 1946, Sheth Amritlal Hargovindas, a philanthropic millowner of Ahmedabad, offered a donation of Rs. 5 lakhs for starting a College of Agriculture |access-date=29 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201235609/http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/NASD/4a7f1db4-5792-415c-be79-266f41eef20a/upgrade-archive-06-14-2007/data/upload-allbooks/disk%203/Jan%20O/ENGLISH/Munshi_his_Art_And_Work__IV/HTML/00000095.htm |archive-date=1 February 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and later a sum of 15 lakhs to start [[Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College]]. Also he later donated money to start hospital now named the Smt. Maniben Amritlal Hargovindas Government Ayurvedic Hospital.

He spent most of his wealth on charities and philanthropy. He died in 1964 at [[Ahmedabad]] at an age of 75.<ref name=a/>

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[[Category:1889 births]]
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[[Category:Businesspeople from Ahmedabad]]
[[Category:Indian businesspeople in textiles]]
[[Category:Gujarati people]]
[[Category:Founders of Indian schools and colleges]]
[[Category:Textile industry in Gujarat]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian philanthropists]]

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