Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff
Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff (4 June 1899 – 27 October 1965)post-independence Indian economy.
In the 1950s, Shroff was founder-director of the Investment Corporation of India and company chairman of
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 Nehru government.[2] 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.[2] Shroff also served as company director of the Tata Group and of several other leading private industries.[citation needed] A biography of Shroff, commissioned by the Forum of Free Enterprise, was published in 2000 by business journalist Sucheta Dalal.[3][4]
References
- ^ Dadabhoy, Bakhtiar (2013) Barons of Banking. Random House India.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-330-39611-0.
- ISBN 0-670-89336-6
- ^ "Sucheta Dalal, Padma Shri". Express India. 27 January 2006. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
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