Jeewanlal Motichand Shah

Jeewanlal Motichand Shah (1881–1971) was a noted Gandhian and an industrialist, who was co-founder of Mukund Limited. He was the father of Viren J. Shah.

Early life Jeewanlal was born to Motichand Pethraj Shah in year 1881 in a Gujarati family based in Calcutta.

Business career Aluminum utensils factory Jeewanlal started his business career in 1912, as a dealer of aluminium utensils but soon started an aluminium utensils factory, in his name Jeewanlal & Company. Later he expanded business and established a large factory in 1917 at Belur the products of which were sold under very popular "CROWN" brand. He very soon became established and noted industrialist of Calcutta. He helped Ramjibhai Kamani, get established in town in his early years who began his business career by selling Jeewanlal's aluminium utensils in 1912. Kamani later became one of the leading industrialist of his time. Jeewanlal and Kamani also later joined hands to supply aluminium sheets to Tatas. They became close associate of Tatas. Jhaverchand Meghani, often referred to as 'National Poet' worked in Jeewanlal's aluminium factory at Belur during the years 1918–1921.

Meanwhile, Jeewanlal came in contact with Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja, who was in town for building Bally Bridge - through their common friends - Devram bhai and Lirabhai Raja. Jagmal Raja, who was an established industrialist having glass and ceramics factories at Bombay, Derol and Allahabad, learned that Lala Mukund Lal was willing to sell his iron mill at Lahore. The duo finally purchased Mukund Steel in 1937. The partnership, stood firmly over the period of time and successive generation and Mukund Limited, is still jointly run by descendants of Jamnalal Bajaj and Jeewanlal. Viren Shah, his son, later served for many years as the Chairman of Mukund.