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'''Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff''' (4 June 1899 – 27 October 1965)<ref>Dadabhoy, Bakhtiar (2013) ''Barons of Banking''. Random House India.</ref> was an industrialist, banker and economist of [[India]]. In 1944, Shroff served as a non-official (since India was not yet independent) delegate at the [[United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference|United Nations "Bretton Woods Conference"]] on post-war monetary and financial systems. In the same year, and with seven other leading industrialists, Shroff co-authored the [[Bombay Plan]], which was a set of proposals for the development of the [[History of the Republic of India|post-independence]] Indian economy.<br />
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In the 1950s, Shroff was founder-director of the Investment Corporation of India and company chairman of [[Bank of India]] and the [[New India Assurance Company Limited]]. In 1954, Shroff co-founded the [[Forum of Free Enterprise]] think tank as a means to counter the socialist tendencies of the [[Jawaharlal Nehru|Nehru]] government.<ref name="Shroff">{{Cite book<br />
|last=Guha <br />
|first=Ramachandra <br />
|authorlink=Ramachandra Guha<br />
|year=2008<br />
|title=India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy<br />
|publisher=Pan Macmillan<br />
|isbn=978-0-330-39611-0<br />
|page=692}}</ref> He complained against the indifference with which the state treated entrepreneurs, and asserted that if the Government of India were to shed some of their 'impractical ideologies' and extend their active support to the private sector, very rapid industrialisation could be brought about within the next 10 years.<ref name="Shroff"/> Shroff also served as company director of the [[Tata Group]] and of several other leading private industries.{{fact|date=September 2018}} A biography of Shroff, commissioned by the Forum of Free Enterprise, was published in 2000 by business journalist [[Sucheta Dalal]].<ref>{{citation|last=Dalal|first=Sucheta|title=A. D. Shroff: Titan of Finance and Free Enterprise|year=2000|publisher=Viking|location=New Delhi|isbn=0-670-89336-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=62057|title=Sucheta Dalal, Padma Shri|date=27 Jan 2006|work=Express India|access-date=21 May 2015|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322154819/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=62057|archive-date=22 March 2016}}</ref><br />
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