Indian Postal Department has released a stamp on Kamlapat Singhania on 1st December 2010.
Born in 1884, Kamlapat Singhania catalysed a tidal wave of industrial regeneration and social engineering in pre-independent North India.
Kamlapat Singhania was Swadeshi at heart and he believed, What Englishmen can do, we can do better. As a result In the early decades of the twentieth century, J.K. Cotton Spinning & Weaving Mills Co. Ltd. produced yarn and cloth that rivalled best imports from Manchester. Between 1921 and 1934, Lala Kamlapat Singhania set up multiple businesses and factories, reinforcing the foundation of J.K. Organisation. He was also a staunch nationalist and participated with vigour in the freedom movement, besides playing a role in uniting the business community and facilitating various industry bodies and associations.
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