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- Q19882373 description "Indian businessman".
- Q19882373 description "Indian businessman".
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- Q19882373 abstract "Thakur Dan Singh Bist (1906 – 10 September 1964) was an Indian billionaire philanthropist from Kumaon, Uttaranchal, India. He was referred to as the "Timber King of India", a "champion of the people" and "a prince among men".The people of Kumaon affectionately remember him as "Maldar" one who is generous with stuff. The famous architect Laurie Baker and his wife mention their close friend in a memoir 'the maldar who owned most of Pithoragarh. A close business associate of Corbett from whom he bought Grasmere estate in Nainital and Berinag tea estate. Skins of Corbett's killed tigers are housed at Thakur Dan Singh's residence the famed 'Bist Estate'. Corbett took jungle clues from employees who 'earned their living by floating sleepers down the Sarda river for Thakur Dan Singh Bist'. William McKay Aitken marvelled at the sights as he travelled through the estates of Chaukori and Berinag belonging to 'Dan Singh Maldaar' and extolled Berinag tea which was highly sought by London tea blenders'. His donation of DSB college, an unprecedented amount of half a million rupees of cash and about 1.5 million rupees worth of more than 12 acres of land in the heart of Nainital, and buildings promoted admiration and attention from the newly independent Indian Government. 2 million rupees was a lot of money. This was at a time when the rupee was at parity with the pound. Timed to concur with the throwing open of the College, the movie ‘Maldar’ was released, and it was doing moderately well in the rest of India, but running full houses in the Himalayas. The movie was about a young man from a humble background who becomes a ‘Maldar’ – a person with a lot of stuff who hence distributes it, shares it. It was widely rumored that Dan Singh Bist had been a benefactor for the project as Jagmani pictures, a distributor, had borrowed 70,000 rupees a few years earlier from Dan Singh, see para 24. It was the coming of age of Thakur Dan Singh as the unrivalled timber king of India.At its height his empire, his massive timber depots with attendant offices and bungalows for managers and himself, extended all across the Himalayas from Lahore to Wazirabad in what later became Pakistan, Jammu to Pathankot, Kartanya Ghat and Kaurilya Ghat and C.B.Ganj Bareilly, Bihar and Tanakpur, Kathgodam and Pithoragarh and Haldwani to Goalpara and Garo Hills as well as Bardiya district and Kathmandu in Nepal. Vast properties purchased by him at each location led to his immersion in local folk lore as a folk hero, who rode on a horse, with hands always full to give. The sleepers for the entire British railway system were more or less supplied by him or if not him, his agents in Assam, G.S Bhandari and Jagadish Singh who he used to meet at Gauripur, India at Roopsee airport, which is now defunct. There was no other timber contractor who could leverage his scale. At its height his company, D.S. Bist and Sons, employed over 5000 people and had tens of millions of rupees in business. but was bidding for contracts in the Andamans and even Brazil when Thakur Dan Singh Bist met his untimely death after completing his last purchase of Beldanga Sugar Mill in Murshidabad. He collapsed in his suite at the Grand Hotel (Kolkata) due to health and stress caused by the anti business pandora's box the newly Independent India opened. He had recently sold the plant he had set up at a discount, sensing no solution, as the Government had refused his machinery to leave Calcutta Port despite having first authorized Dan Singh Bist to take a hefty loan to procure the same. The Bist Industrial Corporation Ltd. which was formed by D. S. Bist and sons of Nainital in whose favour an industrial licence was granted in 1956 to set up a sugar factory of two thousand tonnes capacity a day at Kichha to meet the 'crying need' of the cultivators, of sugar-cane in district Nainital. But after Dan Singh Bist sold his shares in 1963, and subsequently died the next year, it did not run even for a day and was ultimately taken over by Government, by an ordinance issued on 12 September 1970 which was replaced by Bist Industrial Corporation Limited (Acquisition of Undertaking) Act, No. 7 of 1971His empire began to collapse even as he lay in hospital in a comatose state, dying ultimately on the 10th of September, 1964.He had no son, and his was a patriarchal society. His daughters were children, or just married. The fate of Beldanga sugar mill is unknown, as Dan Singh Bist fell into a coma the day after procurement and his daughters were mostly minors. The mill at Kichha is now a governmental run mill after the take over. His prime real estate in Nainital, several architecturally profound and beautiful British cottages with lake views, of several acres each such as Primrose, Cambridge Hall, and Grasmere are alienated, and as well as several bungalows and timber depots scattered across his areas of operation.The Tea gardens of Chaukori and Berinag collapsed almost immediately or began steady descent into anarchy, in the absence of a central intelligence, and combined with socialistic policies and inaction of the Government, Berinag became a town with a population of 25,000 inhabitants and a living breathing municipality where the tea estate used to be, as documented by the Sub-divisional Magistrate of Tehsil at Berinag, in October, 2004 in a report to the Chief Secretary and District Magistrate. and Chaukori remained in a state of neglect. The dairy farm at Chaukori shut down. The 10,000 acre fruit producing and eucalyptus tree export power house 'Dhara Farms' near Moradabad was taken by the Government under new anti-landlord rules. The history of these farms, among the biggest in India, at the time, is interesting. One Raja Gajendra Shah of Moradabad, incurred massive debts to the state, and died in 1943. Unpaid debts allowed the State to acquire these massive lands and these were then bought by Dan Singh Bist for 235,000 rupees on the 30th of October, 1945. Reference is Paragraph 3 and 4 of a case in the Allahabad High Court Dan Singh Bisht vs Firm Janki Saran Kailash Chander on 30 April 1948Equivalent citations: AIR 1948 All 396Its brand was so strong that even after Dan Singh died, from 1964 till the late 1980s, Berinag tea continued to be actively sought by people who loved and remembered its kippery taste, rich red colour and taste, and 'its unique light taste and colour'.".
- Q19882373 alias "Maldar, Dan Singh Maldar".
- Q19882373 birthDate "1906".
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- Q19882373 deathDate "1964-09-10".
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- Q19882373 alternativeNames "Maldar, Dan Singh Maldar".
- Q19882373 dateOfBirth "1906".
- Q19882373 dateOfDeath "1964-09-10".
- Q19882373 name "Bist, Dan Singh Thakur".
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- Q19882373 comment "Thakur Dan Singh Bist (1906 – 10 September 1964) was an Indian billionaire philanthropist from Kumaon, Uttaranchal, India. He was referred to as the "Timber King of India", a "champion of the people" and "a prince among men".The people of Kumaon affectionately remember him as "Maldar" one who is generous with stuff. The famous architect Laurie Baker and his wife mention their close friend in a memoir 'the maldar who owned most of Pithoragarh.".
- Q19882373 label "Dan Singh Bist".
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- Q19882373 givenName "Dan Singh Thakur".
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