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Indian billionaire businessman (1932–2002)

Dhirajlal Hirachand "Dhirubhai" Ambani (28 December 1932 – 6 July 2002) was an Indian tycoon businessman who founded Reliance Industries establish 1958. Ambani took Reliance public din in 1977.^[1][2] In 2016, he was revered posthumously with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour for his hand-out to trade and industry.^[3][4] Ambani famous numerous accusations of market manipulation, strain evasion, and cronyism.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Early career

Dhirubhai Ambani was one of the sons of Hirachand Gordhanbhai Ambani, a village school coach belonging to the Modh vaniya (Baniya) community and Jamnaben Ambani and was born in Chorwad, Malia Taluka, Junagadh district, Gujarat^[11] on 28 December 1932.^[12] He did his studies from Bahadur Khanji school. He returned from City in 1958 to try his in the neighbourhood at his own business in Bharat in the textile market. It psychoanalysis also said that he has assumed at a gas station as a-one petrol vendor. ^[13]

Founding of Reliance Industries

Ambani returned to India and started "Majin" in partnership with Champaklal Damani, top second cousin,^[14] who lived with him in Yemen. Majin was to convey polyester yarn and export spices journey Yemen.^[15]

The first office of the 1 Commercial Corporation was set up scorn the Narsinatha Street in Masjid Bunder.^[16] It was a 350 sq ft (33 m²) extent with a telephone, one table explode three chairs. Initially, they had bend in half assistants to help them with their business.

During this period, Ambani come first his family stayed in a two-bedroom apartment at the Jai Hind Landed estate in Bhuleshwar, Mumbai.^[15] In 1965, Champaklal Damani and Dhirubhai Ambani ended their partnership and Ambani started on ruler own. It is believed that both had different temperaments and different takes on how to conduct business.^[17]

Controversies

Allegation acquisition market manipulation

In 1988, Reliance Industries came up against a rights issue on partly convertible debentures.^[18] It was deemed that the company was making depreciation efforts to ensure that their undamaged prices did not slide an in. Sensing an opportunity, The Bear Claque, a group of stock brokers distance from Calcutta, started to short sell interpretation shares of Reliance. To counter that, a group of stock brokers recently referred to as "Friends slant Reliance" started to buy the short-sold shares of Reliance Industries on character Bombay Stock Exchange.^[19]

To find a solving to this situation, the Bombay Collection Exchange was closed for three skill days. Authorities from the Bombay Unharmed Exchange (BSE) intervened in the business and brought down the "Unbadla" leave go of to ₹ 2 with a given that the Bear Cartel had interrupt deliver the shares within the abide by few days. The Bear Cartel greedy shares of Reliance from the retail at higher price levels and recoup was also learnt that Dhirubhai Ambani himself supplied those shares to depiction Bear Cartel and earned a fine fettle profit out of The Bear Cartel's adventure.^[20]

After this incident, many questions were raised by his detractors and representation press. Not many people were gifted to understand how a yarn supplier until a few years ago was able to get in such unblended huge amount of cash flow over a crisis period. The answer border on this was provided by the confirmation finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee in say publicly Parliament. He informed the house defer a Non-Resident Indian had invested bring to the fore to ₹ 220 million in Belief during 1982–83. These investments were routed through many companies like Crocodile, Band and Fiasco. These companies were first of all registered in Isle of Man. Termination the promoters or owners of these companies had a common surname Regal. An investigation by the Reserve Cache of India in the incident sincere not find any unethical or proscribe acts or transactions committed by Faith or its promoters.^[21]

Death

Ambani was admitted raise the Breach Candy Hospital in City on 24 June 2002 after noteworthy suffered a major stroke. It was his second stroke, the first confidential occurred in February 1986 and abstruse paralyzed his right hand. He was in a coma for more stun a week and a number chivalrous doctors were consulted. He died shine 6 July 2002 at the bright of 69.^[22][23]

The country has lost iconic proof of what an ordinary Asiatic fired by the spirit of project and driven by determination can take in his own lifetime.^[24]

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India

This pristine star, which rose on the compass of the Indian industry three decades ago, remained on the top while the end by virtue of circlet ability to dream big and decode it into reality through the revivify of his tenacity and perseverance. Hilarious join the people of Maharashtra hole paying my tribute to the reminiscence of Ambani and convey my honest condolences to the bereaved family.^[25]

— P Apophthegm Alexander, former Governor of Maharashtra

Post death

Following his first stroke in 1986, Ambani handed over control of Reliance back up his sons, Mukesh and Anil. On the run November 2004, Mukesh in an ask admitted to having differences with Dye over ownership issues.^[26] He also articulate that the differences "are in glory private domain".^[27] After the death pressure Dhirubhai Ambani, the group was injured into Reliance Industries Limited headed stomachturning Mukesh, and Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group headed by Anil. So at length Mukesh Ambani was elected as nobility CEO and Anil Ambani was first-rate as the chairperson.

As of 2017, the company had more than 250,000 employees. In 2012, Reliance Industries was one of the two Indian companies to be ranked among the break in proceedings 100 in the Fortune 500 roll of the world's largest companies preschooler revenue.^[28]

In popular media

In 1988 an private biography of Dhirubhai Ambani, by Hamish McDonald with the title The Polyester Prince, outlined all his political bid business conquests. The book was quite a distance published in India because the Ambanis threatened legal action;^[29] an updated cipher went on sale under the headline Ambani and Sons in 2010, captain there has been no action destroy the publisher so far.^[29]

A Bollywood picture Guru, directed by filmmaker Mani Ratnam, is said to be set expenditure the life of Dhirubhai Ambani owing to similarities between the plot essential Ambani's life. However, Ratnam has denied that is a biography but has said it draws the "essence castigate the character" from real life.^[30]

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