A CHRONICLE OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER

OF COLLECTIVE ORGANISATION40 YEARS OF THE INDIAN DIAMOND INDUSTRY

PIONEERS SUCH AS MAFATLAL MEHTA, KIRTILAL MANILAL

MEHTA, VIJAY SHAH, DILIP MEHTA, KAUSHIK MEHTA AND MAHENDRA

PARIKH ALL MIGRATED TO ANTWERP TO ENSURE THAT THEY

WOULD BE ABLE TO KEEP UP A STEADY SUPPLY OF ROUGH FOR THEIR OWN FAMILY BUSINESSES

AS WELL AS THE GROWING NUMBER OF INDIAN CUTTING

SHOPS.

OTHERS FROM THE COMMUNITY FOLLOWED. KIRTILAL MANILAL MEHTA, WHO AS A BOY OF 12 BEGAN DEALING IN RUBIES IN WHAT WAS THEN BURMA, MOVED LATER TO MUMBAI AND INTO THE DIAMOND INDUSTRY, BUILDING UP WHAT WOULD BECOME GEMBEL, A GLOBAL DIAMOND POWERHOUSE.

MAHENDRA PARIKH SET UP WHAT HAS GROWN TO BE TODAY’S GIANT MAHENDRA BROTHERS IN 1960. KIRTILAL KALIDAS, THE EPONYMOUS FIRM SET UP BY KIRTILAL KALIDAS MEHTA, WHO HAD BEGUN SELLING DIAMONDS IN COIMBATORE IN 1929, INTEGRATED BACKWARDS INTO DIAMOND MANUFACTURING WHEN PANKAJ MEHTA SET UP DIMEXON IN 1964.

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