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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha<br />
|image = C. H. Bhabha at the meeting of the Indian Oilseeds Committee.jpg<br />
|caption = Bhabha at a meeting of the Indian Oilseeds Committee in [[New Delhi]] on October 1947<br />
|office = First Cabinet Minister of Commerce in independent India<br />
|primeminister = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<br />
|term_start = <br />
|term_end = <br />
|predecessor = Position established<br />
|successor = <br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1910|07|22|df=y}}<ref name="TIWW">{{Google books |id=O_0ZAAAAYAAJ |title=The International who's who, 1980–81 }}. Bernan Associates, Taylor & Francis Group.</ref><br />
|birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]] <small>(now [[India]])</small><ref name="TIWW"/><br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1986|6|29|1910|7|22}}<ref name="obit"/><br />
|death_place = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]<ref name="obit"/><br />
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'''Cooverji Hormusji Bhabha''' more popularly known as '''C. H. Bhabha''' was a [[Parsi]] businessman who took charge of the Commerce portfolio in the [[First Cabinet of Independent India]] (from 15 August 1947). He was in charge of the "Works, Mines and Power" in the interim government that took office on 26 October 1946 (announced on 25 August 1946).<ref name="ananth">{{cite book<br />
| url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=X62Sc3muOyQC }}<br />
| title=India since Independence: Making sense of Indian politics<br />
| publisher=[[Pearson PLC|Pearson Education India]]<br />
| author=Ananth, V. Krishna<br />
| year=2010<br />
| location=[[New Delhi]]<br />
| pages=28–29<br />
| isbn=9788131725672 }}</ref><ref>{{Google books |page=320 |title=Transfer of Power in India |id=FY5gI7SGU20C }}, V.P. Menon, Orient Blackswan, 1957</ref> Not a very familiar face in the political circuit until he took charge, his nomination was made possible as [[Abul Kalam Azad|Azad]] was keen on having a [[Parsi]] in the cabinet.<ref>Page 386, ''Nehru: the making of India'', M. J. Akbar, Viking, 1988</ref><br />
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Before joining the government, Bhabha was a director in the Oriental Insurance Company. He was also the first cabinet minister to head the Special Emergency Committee, which was formed as a reaction to the communal riots breaking out in the capital.<ref>{{Google books |page=425 |id=FY5gI7SGU20C |title=Transfer of Power in India }}, V.P. Menon, Orient Blackswan, 1957</ref><br />
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He died suddenly of a heart attack in London on 29 June 1986.<ref>{{Google books |id=MxFMAgAAQBAJ |page=289 |title=Chapter 21, Healer: Dr Prathap Chandra Reddy and the Transformation of India, Pranay Gupte, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="obit">{{cite journal |date=17 July 1986 |title=Obituary References - Sixth Session of the Eighth Lok Sabha |url=https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/3685/1/lsd_08_06_17-07-1986.pdf |journal=Lok Sabha Debates |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=6 |access-date=18 April 2020}}</ref> At the time of his death, he was one of the last surviving original members of the first cabinet of independent India; [[Jagjivan Ram]], the last surviving original cabinet member, died one week later.<br />
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