Gopichand P. Hinduja was chairman of Hinduja Group, a Mumbai-headquartered multinational conglomerate

Gopichand P. Hinduja, the head of Britain’s richest family, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 85 after a protracted illness.

Popularly known as GP, he was chairman of Hinduja Group, a diverse Indian conglomerate with interests in several sectors, including finance, media and entertainment, and oil. His immediate relatives said in a statement, “He will leave a deep hole at the heart of our family.”

Hinduja is credited with transforming his father’s modest textile and trading businesses into a conglomerate which today incorporates more than 25…

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