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	Munshi Premchand
		Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880-October 8, 1936) (pen name: Premchand) was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature.
		Premchand (प्रेमचंद) was born Dhanpat Rai Srivastava in Lamahi near Varanasi where his father was a clerk in the post office.
		Premchand's parents died young - his mother when he was seven and his father while he was still a student.
	omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Premchand (0 words)

	An insane interlude in history
		This was the rationale, eminently sound on the face of it, behind the formation of a company in 1864 with the aim of reclaiming a section of the sea, known as Back Bay.
		The principal promoter of Back Bay Reclamation Company, Premchand Roychand, was almost unknown to the Bombay business world until the onset of the cotton crisis in Britain.
		Premchand himself, in association with others, floated a number of companies, the shares of which were sold at a high premium.
	www.rediff.com /money/2004/jan/03spec3.htm (3162 words)

	Welcome to Premchand Group (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The history of the Premchand Group began in Bombay in 1856, when Premchand Roychand, one of the most prominent personalities in the financial markets of his time, founded Premchand Roychand and Sons, which today functions as the Group's apex entity, providing its headquarters.
		Under their aegis, the activities of the family firm of Premchand Roychand and Sons expanded rapidly, and the firm grew into an important finance house, a private bank to Princely Houses and States, and a market maker in bullion and foreign exchange.
		Over the decades that followed, this investment (made under the leadership of the late Kishore M. Premchand) was a major stepping-stone in the growth of the Group.
	www.premchand-group.com /middle.htm (264 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Premchand Roychand Studentship
		Premchand Roychand Studentship was instituted at the university of calcutta in 1866 by Premchand Roychand, a Parsee millionnaire of Bombay.
		In terms of emulation and prestige this scholarship has been the most cherished award for the meritorious students of the Calcutta University pursuing higher studies.
		Many of the Premchand Roychand scholars eventually became national celebrities.
	banglapedia.org /HT/P_0260.HTM (0 words)

	PRS-PERMACEL
		The history of the Premchand Group began in Bombay in 1856, when Premchand Roychand, one of the most prominent personalities in the financial markets of his time, founded Premchand Roychand and Sons, which today functions as the Group's apex entity.
		Today, the Premchand Group is a closely-held, family-owned Group that believes in investing mainly for the long term.
		Premchand Roychand and Sons provides the headquarters for the Group in Mumbai.
	www.prs-permacel.com /corover/Prsgroup.htm (0 words)

	The genesis and growth
		By the 1830s there was a perceptible increase in the volume of business, not only in loans but also in corporate and bank stocks and shares.
		It is said that from 1850 to 1865, the history of brokers and their rise to prominence in Bombay is the history of Premchand Roychand.
		Premchand Roychand was their acknowledged leader and was the first broker who could speak and write English.
	www.hindu.com /businessline/2000/07/09/stories/120962b1.htm (903 words)

	Premchand Roychand: Mumbai/Bombay pages
		Premchand Roychand virtually ruled the city at the end of the 19th century.
		He came to Bombay as a young man in search of work, and became one of the most successful traders in Bombay.
		However, he managed to rebuild his fortune, though on a more modest scale.
	theory.tifr.res.in /bombay/persons/premchand-roychand.html (0 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Lead Article
		Regarding more mundane matters, controversy raged in the pages of a Bombay daily as to whether it was possible for a Goanese butler to acquire Rs 8,000 in 13 years, without swindling his master.
		Just like the stock market scams which plagued India a century and a quarter later, Bombay was agog with the Premchand Roychand affair.
		What transpired was that the famous business house of Premchand Roychand, dealing in cotton, was about to declare insolvency, when the Bank of Bombay, the leading financial institution of the city, discovered that if the eminent Indian business house was to fail, it would ruin the market.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020929/spectrum/main7.htm (798 words)

	University Buildings Mumbai-Rajbai Tower Mumbai- Rajabai Tower University Campus Bombay
		Work on the tower began on 1st march 1869 and was completed in November 1878.
		The cost of the tower was borne by Premchand Roychand a prosperous broker who founded the Bombay Stock Exchange.
		He laid down a condition that the tower should be named Rajabai, after his mother.
	www.mumbai.org.uk /rajbai-tower.html (491 words)

	Following the Equator eBook
		Apparently the idol symbolized a person who had become a saint or a god through accessions of steadily augmenting holiness acquired through a series of reincarnations and promotions extending over many ages; and was now at last a saint and qualified to vicariously receive worship and transmit it to heaven’s chancellery.
		Premchand Roychand’s bungalow, in Lovelane, Byculla, where an Indian prince was to receive a deputation of the Jain community who desired to congratulate him upon a high honor lately conferred upon him by his sovereign, Victoria, Empress of India.
		She had made him a knight of the order of the Star of India.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/2895/189.html (462 words)

	Salem Calendar
		FILM: Merchants of Bombay 2004, 24 min., directed by Zafar Hai 2 pm
		Morse Auditorium This documentary touches on the lives and times of four men whose spectacular business careers spanned the 19th century and transformed Bombay: Jamsetjee Jejeeboy, David Sassoon, Premchand Roychand and Jamsetji Tata.
		FILM: Dabbawallas 2004, 60 min., directed by Paul S. Goodman 3 pm
	salemorg.coldworks.com /newsletter.asp (0 words)

	Businessworld: Bookmark
		David Sasoon, the Jew from Baghdad who came to Bombay, and opened a branch in Japan just four years after that country ended its age-old isolation in 1853.
		Premchand Roychand, the first great speculator in Bombay's financial and commodity markets, and a host of industrial pioneers - from J.N. Tata and Prafulla Chandra Ray to G.D. Birla and Dhirubhai Ambani.
		However, there is far more in this book than portraits of the businessmen who made their mark over the centuries.
	www.businessworldindia.com /mar1504/bookmark.asp (1463 words)

	South Asian Media Net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1924 he obtained the MSc degree in Chemistry standing First in First Class, from Presidency College, Calcutta, and was awarded a gold medal for his brilliant result.
		Qudrat-i-Khuda also received a premchand roychand studentship for higher research in Chemistry at Calcutta University.
		He obtained the DSc in 1929 from London University for his research entitled 'Stainless Configuration of Multiplanmet Ring'.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/bangladesh/bangladesh_lp_science.cfm (1752 words)

	AQA ALI SHAH AGA KHAN II (1298-1302/1881-1885) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In its resolution, a body of distinguished citizens was made in a deputation to Sir C. Baring to present the public opinions.
		This deputation included the Aga Khan II, Badruddin Tyab Ali (1844-1906), Feroz Shah, Telang, Mandlik, Sir Mangaldas Nathubhai and Premchand Roychand.
		The storm round the Bill however continued, and at length, the Bill had been amended and was passed on January 25, 1884.
	ismaili.net /histoire/history08/history815.html (888 words)

	DNA - Opinion - A heritage of giving - Daily News & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The University, like so many public buildings in the city, stands testimony to the generosity and farsightedness of Indian magnates of another time and era, who understood the need for institution building.
		Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney, who donated Rs 1 lakh towards its construction in 1868, Jagannath Shunkershett, Sir Jamshetji Jeejeebhoy and Premchand Roychand, were among the many businessmen who contributed money, time and effort to the city of Bombay.
		Education was a primary concern, but surely they must have also thought of erecting grand edifices that stood tall and imposing and reflected the aspirations of a city with global ambitions.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1042230 (520 words)

	OKS Speciality Lubricants (India) Private Limited
		The history of the Premchand Group began in Bombay in 1856, when Premchand Roychand, one of the most prominent personalities in the financial markets of his time, founded Premchand Roychand & Sons, which today functions as the Group's apex entity.
		The Group’s strength is in building and growing relationships with business partners, be they large or small.
		Premchand Roychand & Sons provides the headquarters for the Group in Mumbai.
	www.oks-india.com /user/ourgroup.asp (184 words)

	Pooja Morje - Assignments
		The library and the 280 feet high Rajabai clock tower, with its marvellous sculpted figures, was funded by the 'Cotton King' and banker, Premchand Roychand.
		The Rajabai Clock Tower in the University of Bombay, named after mother of Premchand Roychand was built from a donation of rupees 4 lakhs by him, as was the library.
		The University of Bombay was build to function as an University.
	members.tripod.com /morje/assign.html (4412 words)

	Punjab Heritage News - Artist from Punjab illustrates French fable (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghrahalaya (Museum) is currently organising a French exhibition titled “The Dream Of An Inhabitant Of Mogul” at the Premchand Roychand Hall till April 2.
		I feel privileged to be in one of the finest heritage buildings in Mumbai and even more so to have this exhibition displayed here.”
		The Dream Of An Inhabitant Of Mogul will be open for public display at the museum till April 2 at the Premchand Roychand Hall.
	www.punjabheritage.org /content/view/330/28 (385 words)

	History of Bombay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The American Civil War of 1860 helped Indians to establish brokerage houses in Bombay.
		The leading broker at the time, Premchand Roychand, assisted in framing conventions, ground rules and procedures for trading which are respected even now.
		He was the first Indian broker who could speak and write in fluent English.
	www.bombayproperty.com /bhistory.html (3080 words)

	LONE WOLF FINALS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1943, a British MP, obviously still traumatised by what he had seen at Leeds and Lord's, declared in the House of Commons: "We have got Ponsford out cheaply but Bradman is still batting." What was he referring to?
		His first venture was to open the Hong Kong branch of his father's firm in December of the same year, in partnership with Premchand Roychand and others.
		His reputation as an industrialist was based on the cotton mills he started.
	members.tripod.com /~asimha/lwarfi.htm (2596 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Simultaneously he started research programme on mercury compounds.
		Jatindra Nath Sen who won the Premchand Roychand Scholarship (P. S) at his M. Sc.
		The circumstances that led to the discovery of mercurous nitrite were quite thrilling to a research scientist.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/jun/08/08062005ft.htm (4207 words)

	Doc 1: It's My Country, Merchant Prices Of Bombay Tickets
		You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
		Merchant Princes of Bombay is an unusual half-hour documentary that touches on the life and times of four men whose spectacular business careers spanned the nineteenth century: Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, David Sassoon, Premchand Roychand and Jamsetji Tata.
		These were no ordinary businessmen, for their vision and flair transformed the city of Bombay from an "Isle of Palms" into a "City of Gold." Traces of dhows that bobbed on the Bunder of cotton bales that once flanked the dusty Green have vanished.
	www.smarttix.com /show.aspx?showCode=DOC2 (709 words)

	History of the Calcutta University Department of English
		A brilliant scholar, he became a Premchand Roychand Student in 1918.
		Subodh Chandra Sengupta, himself a Premchand Roychand Student of 1928, was a Post
		Bhattacharya was a young part-timer dividing his time between the
	www.uvm.edu /~sgutman/Calcutta_University.html (7877 words)

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