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Portrait of A. D. Shroff

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A. D. Shroff

Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff

1899–1965

Also known as: Ardeshir Shroff

Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff (1899–1965) was an eminent industrialist, banker, and economist. He was one of the architects of free India’s banking and insurance business. Shroff was amongst the earliest proponents of free enterprise in India.

In 1944, Shroff served as a non-official delegate at the United Nations “Bretton Woods Conference” on post-war monetary and financial systems. Shroff also co-authored the Bombay Plan, a set of proposals for the development of the post-independence Indian economy. In the 1950s, Shroff was the founder-director of the Investment Corporation of India and the company chairman of Bank of India and the New India Assurance Company Limited.

In 1956, Shroff co-founded the Forum of Free Enterprise, a think-tank, as a means to counter the socialist tendencies of the Nehru government. Through FFE, Shroff sought to educate students and the common man about the sound principles of economics. Later in 1959, Shroff would also play a role in founding the Swatantra Party.

Upon his early demise in 1965, the A D Shroff Memorial Trust was set up in his memory.

How A. D. Shroff is discussed in this archive

Authored 43 works in the archive.

Referenced in 87 other works , including S. Divakara on The Forum of Free Enterprise , Identity, Markets and Social Welfare , and MUTUAL FUNDS AND OFFSHORE FUNDS IN INDIA .

In Designing and Development of Payment System in India : Shroff is named as the co-founder of the Forum of Free Enterprise alongside M.

In Challenges of Transforming India : The lecture is delivered as the A.

In It's India's Turn Now : Sinha's 2016 address is itself the marquee lecture of the A.

In Minoo Shroff on A D Shroff Memorial Trust and the Forum of Free Enterprise : The trust under discussion memorializes A.

In S. Divakara on The Forum of Free Enterprise : Shroff is the founder of the Forum of Free Enterprise and the central historical figure in Divakara's origin narrative.

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Primary works (184)

  • Architects of Tomorrow · 2023
  • Statement on the Current Economic Situation in India · 2019
  • Designing and Development of Payment System in India · 2017
    • "M. R. Pai (1931–2003), the consumer-rights crusader who joined A. D. Shroff at the founding of the Forum of Free Enterprise in 1956" · Shroff is identified as the founding partner of the institution whose award Hota is receiving
  • Challenges of Transforming India · 2016
    • "Delivered as the A. D. Shroff Memorial Lecture under the joint auspices of the Forum of Free Enterprise and the A. D. Shroff Memorial Trust in Mumbai on 14 October 2016" · opening framing establishing Shroff as the namesake patron of the lecture series
  • It's India's Turn Now · 2016
    • "the Diamond Jubilee of the Forum of Free Enterprise and the Golden Jubilee of the A. D. Shroff Memorial Trust" · opening paragraph; situates Sinha's lecture as a Shroff-Trust occasion
  • Minoo Shroff on A D Shroff Memorial Trust and the Forum of Free Enterprise · 2015
    • "it was founded a year after he died and there are many people who said that this is fine, but why don't you have a memorial trust for objects which were... because one was public education, financial literacy" · Origin of the A. D. Shroff Memorial Trust
    • "both Mr. Shroff and Mr. Palkhivala were immaculate about keeping time and keeping their commitments." · Inherited culture of punctuality
  • Minoo Shroff on His Uncle A D Shroff · 2015
    • "He was a born liberal, though born in a lower middle class family, but I suppose going to England also liberated him" · On Shroff's liberal formation
    • "I'm not criticizing Nehru as a man criticizing his policy. I'm criticizing because he's misguided. Otherwise, I would not have joined the Congress Planning Commission." · Shroff's stance on Nehru
  • S. Divakara on The Forum of Free Enterprise · 2015
    • "The Forum of Free Enterprise was started in 1956 by Eddie Shroff with the main object of educating the public on economic affairs." · Divakara naming Shroff as the founder.
    • "Then Eddie Shroff said I will give you the money, you start, I will also be there. That is how the forum started" · Account of Shroff seed-funding the Forum during the Bombay House lift conversation.
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Excerpts (9)

  • THE APPLICATION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    • "the text was originally delivered as a speech at the 6th A.D. Shroff Memorial Lecture." · Shroff's name anchors the lecture series within which this address on science and technology policy was delivered
  • Economic Reforms In India: Where Are We And Where Do We Go?
    • "I am deeply honoured to have been invited to deliver this A. D. Shroff Memorial Lecture." · Shroff's name is the framing anchor of the entire address
    • "A. D. Shroff accomplished much during his life: he passed away at a relatively young age. He was associated with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as early as 1938 when he served with him in the National Planning Committee." · Shroff's career is sketched to establish him as a central figure in the institutional history of Indian economic thought
  • FREE MARKET ECONOMY: Key to Economic Progress and Freedoms
    • "The Forum was, of course, founded by a very great man, the late A. D. Shroff." · Shroff is established as the Forum's founding figure whose standards define the institution's identity
  • India: Seeing the Future in its Past
    • "AD Shroff, who started the Forum of Free Enterprise in the 1950s, was an unofficial delegate to the Bretton Woods Conference" · Shroff's founding role and global credentials are the historical anchor for Rajan's golden-jubilee lecture
  • MAKING CAPITAL OUT OF CONSUMER GOODS
    • "delivered as a speech by Abid Hussain at the 24th A. D. Shroff Memorial Lecture" · preamble identifies Shroff as the memorial namesake of the entire event
    • "The Forum was, of course, founded by a very great man, the late A. D. Shroff." · opening tribute to Shroff as the Forum's founder
  • Rajaji- Man with a Mission
    • "N G Ranga, B R Shenoy, Piloo Mody, Khasa Subba Rau and A D Shroff during the era of socialist command" · Shroff named as one of the liberal dissenters the book celebrates alongside Rajaji
  • The Indian Constitution And Judiciary
    • "Following is the first A D Shroff Memorial Lecture delivered by Dr. P B Mukharji on 27th October 1973." · Shroff named as the person in whose memory this lecture series was established
  • The Role of Judiciary in Parliamentary Democracy by Justice M.C. Chagla
    • "The following is an excerpt from the A.D. Shroff Memorial Lecture titled 'The Role of Judiciary in Parliamentary Democracy' published by the Forum of Free Enterprise and delivered by Justice M.C. Chagla in 1974." · Shroff named as the person in whose memory this lecture was delivered
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