Alamohan Das

Alamohan Das was an industrialist in pre-independence and post-independence Bengal. He ventured into various industries like jute, cotton, heavy machinery, drug, banking etc. He is known for his role in the India Machinery Company, one of the earliest indigenous machine making industries of India.

Early life Alamohan Das was born in a middle-class Mahishya family in Khila-Baruipur, Howrah district of West Bengal, India. He had little formal education as a child, except attending a village pathshala and a middle primary school. But as he hailed from a business minded Mahishya family, he came to Kolkata at the age of 15 and started his business career by selling parched rice, small things, but gradually switched over to industrial items.

India Machinery Co. In 1930, he founded the India Machinery Co., which, according to Government reports, was one of the few companies that produced machines of grade 1 category. Amongst the products of the company were lathes, weighing machines, textile manufacturing machines, and printing machines. In 1937, he started Bharat Jute Mill.

Political career In independent India's first election in 1951, he won from the Amta North assembly constituency in the West Bengal state assembly, contesting as an independent candidate.

Works Howrah Chemical Works Bengal Weighing Scales Co.(1921) Paul Engineering Works (1934) Bharat Jute Mills (1937), inaugurated by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Dasnagar (1937), Dass's namesake industrial town India Machinery Co. (1940) Dass Bank Ltd. (1940) Howrah Insurance Co. Ltd. (1941) Asia Drug Co. Ltd. (1942) Dass Sugar Corporation (1942) The Great India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. (1945) Arati Cotton Mills (1948)

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