The People Behind the Legacy
The family came to Gulbarga and from there settled in Hyderabad and Latur, the line branching across the towns of the Nizam’s state. Set out here in the order it grew — the root, the founding generation, the three branches, and the generations that turned commerce into schools and hospitals.
The Line
Portraits are being added to the archive as they are catalogued. Each name below opens a full profile, cross-linked to the institutions that carry it.
Merchant & patron
Remembered in the Shri Bankatlal Lahoti English Medium School.
Member of Parliament
First Rajya Sabha, 1952; namesake of the Puranmal Lahoti Government Polytechnic.
Educationist
A founding figure of the Dayanand Education Society.
Educationist
President of the Dayanand Education Society, Latur.
Trustee
Carried the trust into modern medical philanthropy, including the Lahoti Eye Centre.
In whose memory
The Krishnakriti Foundation and its festival were founded in his name.
Founder, Kalakriti India
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; managing trustee of the family trust.
What They Left
Twenty Institutions
Almost every name on this page appears on a gate, a foundation stone or a trust deed somewhere across the Deccan.
The institutions →Three Generations
Rai Saheb and Rai Bahadur, a seat in the first Rajya Sabha, and a French ministerial order — a century apart.
The honours →One Inheritance
The three institutions of giving that turned a family fortune into a public one, from 1956 to 2017.
The trusts →