Why North Indians make excellent entrepreneurs
People in every region/community in india always praise their region/comminity, for example a tamil will be fond of his state, similarly a marathi, gujarati, bengali etc. But i have not seen such tendency in the people belonging to North India, though they are perhaps the most successful people in this country, be it business, entrepreneurship ,leadership, politics or anything. The reason behind the lack of such chauvinism is perhaps lack of regionlism. And lack of regionalism is because they dont feel threatened by other communities in india as they have always occupied leading positions in the country in most of the fields
North Indians are known for their entrepreneureship and leadership abilities that’s why majority of Indian entrepreneurs/major businessmen belong to North India.Basically they from Punjab,Haryana, Rajasthan , Uttar Pradesh & Delhi states of India.
Take a look
GD Birla-Founder of Birla group
Bhai Mohan Singh-Founder of pharmaceutical gaint Ranbaxy, he paved the way for this industry in India
Bajajs- Bajaj group
B M Munjal-Founder, owner of Hero group, the world’s biggest producer of two wheelers
KP Singh- Founder owner of real estate gaint DLF, he is 8th richest man on earth with individual worth of $ 30 billion, single handedly transformed Gurgaon from a village to a business hub.
Jindals- Jindal group fame, one of the biggest private sector groups in India,
Lalit Suri-Chairman of the Bharat Hotels chain and the single largest hotel owner. Lalit Suri can be called as the uncrowned hotel king of India
M.S. Oberoy-Founder of the Oberoi Group of Hotels, known as the father of Indian hotel industry
Naresh Goyal- Founder owner of india’s biggest private airline, Jet airways
Raunaq singh-was one of the earliest entrepreneurs of independent India who made it big. He was the founder of Raunaq group. The Raunaq Group’s major companies include Apollo Tyres Ltd, Bharat Gears Ltd, Bharat Steel Tubes Ltd, Raunaq International Ltd, Menarini Raunaq Pharma Ltd, and Raunaq Automotive Components Ltd.
Subhash Chandra- Founder owner of zee group,l india’s biggest private media group, recently started noted Indian cricket league
Sunil Mittal- Founder owner of Bharati/Airtel group, one of the richest men on eart
Shobhana Bhartiya- Daughter of renowned industrialist KK Birla, Shobhana Bhartia is the vice-chairperson as well as the editorial director of the Hindustan Times group, which is among India’s major newspaper and media houses
There are end numbers of such people but I can recall these names instantly
Not only in India, but the successful NRI entrepreneurs are mostly from north
LN Mittal- Perhaps the most famous Indian businessman abroad, 5th richest man on earth, proud owner of Indian passport
Hindujas- The Hinduja brothers — are a business family. According to the Sunday Times Rich List they are worth 6.2 Billion Pounds (Approximately 12.4 Billion Dollars). They are involved with many businesses, in various parts of the world. The Hinduja brothers have stakes in global finance, telecommunications, film and oil (Gulf Oil) businesses.
Chatwals-One of the most famous hoteliers in the US, known for the proximity to the Clintons
Arun sarin- Global CEO of Vodafone group
Saber Bhatia- Founder of Hotmail
Vinod Dham– Former Vice Presinent in Intel , He is also the co-founder partner of New Path Ventures which has funded Companies like Nevis Networks.Dhams are punjabis who migrated to india from Rawalpindi in present day pakistan
Vinod Khosla- One of the the brightest indian name in USA’s silicon valley,.He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986.
Lord swaraj paul – is an Indian-born, British-based business magnate and philanthropist. He was knighted by the Queen in 1978. In 1996 he became a life peer, i.e. a member of the House of Lords, taking the title Baron Paul of Marylebone in the City of Westminster.
Anil agarwal- Vedanta group, UK, one of the biggest names in UK’s corporate sector
A.J. Agarwal, senior managing director and financier in corporate advisory services at the Blackstone Group
Jaypaul S.Ahluwalia, Director for AXA Group Insurance
Kim Singh, founder CEO PortaEnterprise. Was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young LLP and Merrill Lynch.
Gurbaksh Chahal, one of the youngest and most successful internet entrepreneurs of recent history. Created two companies worth over $340 million by the age of 25
Rakesh Gangwal, former CEO and Chairman, US Airways Group
Gaurav Garg, co-founder of Redback Networks
Rajat Gupta, former Managing Director, McKinsey & Company
Rajiv Gupta, a General Manager of Hewlett Packard
Anshu Jain, managing director and global head of capital markets at DeutscheBank
Naveen Jain, former project manager at Microsoft and founder of InfoSpace.com
Shailesh Mehta, former CEO and chairman of the board of Providian Financial Corporation; currently president and CEO of Granite Hill Capital Ventures
Rajeev Misra, managing director and global head of integrated credit trading at Deutsche Bank
Jay Sidhu, Former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bancorp
Sanjiv Sidhu, founder and CEO of i2 Technologies, a a Dallas, Texas based supply chain management software and services company.
Pradeep Sindhu, Co-founder and CTO of Juniper Networks
Dinakar Singh, Founder of TPG-Axon Capital Management and former managing director at Goldman Sachs (one of the youngest in the firm’s history)
Rana Talwar, banker, former Group CEO of Standard Chartered Bank
Poonam Gupta, Chicago, Entrepreneur – President, Iyka Inc
Arjun Malhotra- is an indian businessman who co-founded HCL Technologies Ltd in 1976. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He founded TechSpan in 1998. TechSpan merged with HeadStrong in 2003. Currently he is the CEO of Headstrong, a US based IT consulting company. He also sits on the board of IIT, ISB, and many other educational and social organizations.
I wont be exaggerating when I say about 80% of big Indian names in business and entrepreneurship are from North India. For clarification, by north I mean khari boli/Punjabi speaking north western region in India which include Punjab, Haryana, Himachal,delhi, Western UP and Rajasthan.
Other major names in business from India include Tatas, Ambanis and Narayan murthy.Tatas are Persians with roots outside India, ambanis are Gujaratis and murthy is south Indian.So, we have a handful of entrepreneurs from rest of India. It’s so evident that north enjoy an overwhelming domination in producing entrepreneurs/business magnates
What prompted me to start this blog is recent icidences in India highlighting north Indian people, that they are more prone to break laws etc(and similar stupid stuff).
On the other hands south indians have made us proud by their achievements in engineering …that’s why many times i think that we indians compliment each other very beautifully and together we can make India a developed country in another two decades.I have immense respect and love for all fellow indians from all parts of our great country
VIVEK MITTAL
May 6, 2008 at 11:06 am
most north indian business men won’t be termed as true blood entrepreneurs who build industries through inventiveness, like ford , bosch, toyota who were engineers. They use politicking to get their work done, which is not so great thing. marwari’s are traders , they go through M&A route of acquiring dilapitated industries and politicking again.
May 6, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Dear Anon
Thanks for your views
But what would you say about Sabeer Bhatia who is a technocrat as well as entrepreneur.
May 23, 2008 at 6:49 pm
first of all get ur facts rite.what do u mean by north indians.marwaris are not fully north indians.half of rajasthan comes in western india.howcome u forgot gujaratis who are arguably the best entrepreneurs belong to the western part of our country.hve u forgotten the ambanis,kotaks,dilip shangvi,tulsi tanti,patels,palanpuri jains(who dominate the diamond trade of our country),the shahs,the mehtas,the adanis etc.60%of the stock market is dominated by gujaratis.what bout the sindhi and parsi community who r mostly in the western belt of our country.hve u forgotten the chettiars of the south india.first get ur facts rite then write such blogs in future.
May 24, 2008 at 11:44 am
Dear saurav
Thanks for your comments
You say marwaris are not “fully” north indians
How about me?….i am a marwari from Haryana…..people of the same marwari community you will find in Delhi, Punjab,UP,Haryana as well…for example Sunil Mittal is from punjab..
you said half of Rajasthan comes uner western india……….i would say who has decided what is western india?….It is decided by People, community,language and other social parameters, it’s laughable that Rajasthan is not north….You will find Rajputs,Marwaris,Jats,all over north including Rajasthan………It’s very common to see marriages across Rajasthan,Haryana,UP,Delhi and Punjab because of same communities
Of course Gujaratis are excellent entrepreneurs……In fact i could well have used “North Indians and Gujaratis make excellent entrepreneurs”………but Gujarat is not north as it’s not Hindi speaking and they are a seperate community alltogether
But why do you talk about sindhi and Parsi community……….Sindhis are North indians and parsis have roots outside india
But the fact remains the fact North Indians (also Gujaratis) form excellent entreprenures
June 8, 2008 at 8:53 pm
i think north indians especially punjabis work hard and think big that is why they are very successful
August 16, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Omg…….what a piece of crap have you posted here…..Well its no wonder northi’s are good @ entrepreneurship….they dont pay taxes…they get 0/10 for ethics and social responsibility….Please visit a household in south india, you would find it other way….
August 19, 2008 at 11:55 am
Dear Anurag, Thanks for your comment
While you accept that North indians are good in entrepreneurship..but the reasons you gave are strange, you say North Indians dont pay taxes and are Zero in ethics or social responsibility….Well i wont defend as everybody including you know the truth
April 19, 2010 at 10:46 am
I sincerely doubt Kim Singh was awarded anything. He’s a scam artist and should be avoided at all costs. He’s a phony. Stay away from him. Don’t believe a word he says. SCAM artist!
April 20, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Thats true, North indians have made us Proud by building business empires. South indians, marathis , bengalis etc should also strive for entrepreneurship
May 2, 2010 at 11:45 am
Hey Arvind,
Tell me more about this Kim Singh.
Is he really a scam artist?
May 12, 2010 at 6:22 pm
the reason for this is that north india do have a high level of male dominated societies,while the family values in south india has eroded.south indian families are not that much male dominated.And to run a business you need hands(sons,brothers,joint family) which are not available in south india at all.though south indians can be good scientists and honest administrators
October 18, 2010 at 12:45 am
If you go back in history and think about it more deeply. The reason you may find more entrepreneurship in the north is due to necessity. In the north the land is not very fertile so therefore people had to learn how to become experts in trade and business to survive. While in the south people most ppl were able to make a living through agricultural means. Of course in the last 100 years things have changed dramatically. You will begin to see more and more entrepreneurs coming out of the south and an entrepreneurial culture has been emerging starting from within the the Tech Industry.
April 1, 2011 at 3:20 am
These kind of threads create differences amongst Indians… I still feel that India as a nation has failed to keep us together as a nation since 1947. Even after so much slavery and struggle for freedom, we somehow are not able to get rid of the old habits of ridiculing each other and praising one over the others.
September 28, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Be proud to be an Indian, why regional prejudices. Both North Indians and South Indians are good in business. North may have many billionaires, not like the one the south has, Narayana Murthy, who made others rich with ethics and selfish-less efforts.
February 21, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Can I ask why you guys always insult Marwari’s stop being racist we are running most of the Indian restaurant in Bay Area and I’m proud be from Rajasthan as it significe Heritage of India so stop being racist better compete in business. And one more thing we really work hard that is why we achieve success.