The Family
From Gullar, a village in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan, to Gulbarga under the Nizam, and on to Hyderabad and Latur. A Maheshwari trading house that became bankers, cotton merchants and mill-owners — and then gave a quarter of everything away.
Janma Bhoomi · Karma Bhoomi
The Chapters
Each chapter stands on its own, and each links onward to the people and institutions it produced.
I
Gullar in Nagaur, the move south to Gulbarga, and the wider movement of Marwari merchants who settled across the Nizam’s dominion and helped build its commercial life.
II
M/s Dayaram Surajmal — indigenous bankers, cotton merchants, oil millers and commission agents — and the Mahboob Shahi Kulbarga Mills that carried the house from trade into industry.
III
Gulbarga, Hyderabad and Secunderabad, Latur, Nanded, Warangal, Hingoli, Ambajogai and Yadgir — and on to Bombay. Where the firm traded and the family settled.
IV
Rai Saheb and Rai Bahadur under the old administration, a seat in the Republic’s first Rajya Sabha, and a French ministerial order — a century apart, and all three earned differently.
V
The whole arc as a single line, from arrival in the 1860s to the present day — each milestone linked to the person, institution or trust it produced.
VI
Enterprise, philanthropy, education, healthcare, heritage and Hyderabad — the six commitments that run through five generations of decisions.
Beyond the Story
Seventeen Members
The root, the founding generation, the three branches, and the generations that turned commerce into schools and hospitals.
The house →Twenty Institutions
Endowed to local bodies across five regions, so that each would belong to the community it served.
The institutions →1956 · 2003 · 2017
One inheritance, three institutions of giving — from a charitable will to a bridge between India and France.
The trusts →