The People Behind the Legacy
The House,
Generation by Generation
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
Seventeen of the House
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.
The Root of the House
The forebearThe Founding Generation
The House of Dayaram SurajmalThe Hyderabad Branch
Secunderabad & Hyderabad · Telangana
The Gulbarga Branch
Hyderabad–KarnatakaThe Latur Branch
MarathwadaSeth Bankatlal Lahoti
Merchant & patron
Remembered in the Shri Bankatlal Lahoti English Medium School.
Seth Puranmal Lahoti
Member of Parliament
First Rajya Sabha, 1952; namesake of the Puranmal Lahoti Government Polytechnic.
Raja Narayanlal Lahoti
Educationist
A founding figure of the Dayanand Education Society.
Laxmiraman Lahoti
Educationist
President of the Dayanand Education Society, Latur.
Later Generations
Public life, philanthropy & cultureSureshchandra Lahoti
Trustee
Carried the trust into modern medical philanthropy, including the Lahoti Eye Centre.
Krishnachandra B. Lahoti
In whose memory
The Krishnakriti Foundation and its festival were founded in his name.
Prshant K. Lahoti
Founder, Kalakriti India
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; managing trustee of the family trust.
What They Left
Follow a Name to a Building
Twenty Institutions
Schools, Colleges & Hospitals
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
Three Honours
Rai Saheb and Rai Bahadur, a seat in the first Rajya Sabha, and a French ministerial order — a century apart.
The honours →One Inheritance
Foundations & Trusts
The three institutions of giving that turned a family fortune into a public one, from 1956 to 2017.
The trusts →