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Mahindra & Mohammed was founded in 1945 by Kailash Chandra Mahindra, Jagdish Chandra Mahindra, and Malik Ghulam Muhammad in Ludhiana, Punjab. The company later became M&M, which is now an industrial conglomerate. After the Partition of India in 1947, Muhammad migrated to Pakistan and became its finance minister. Previously, he had worked as an administrator of Bhopal state, advised the Nizam of Hyderabad, and held bureaucratic positions in the colonial government. He is credited with Pakistan s first Five-Year Plan.
Soon the name of Mahindra's Scorpio Classic is also going to be added to the vehicle collection of the Indian Army. It has been informed by Mahindra & | BLiTZ
‘Mahindra & Mahindra’
Three weeks ago, popular chronicler of Indian automobile history, Adil Jal Darukhanawala, was in city. He was here to release ‘Timeless Mahindra’, a coffee-table book about the iconic Indian auto-maker “Mahindra & Mahindra.” I borrowed a copy of the book, glanced through it, like most people do a coffee-table book, when I chanced upon the story I had long forgotten, a story worth recalling in these times of communal strife and chaotic democracy.
Many may not know that the second ‘M’ in ‘M&M’ was Mohammed. Initially, the company was established as ‘Mahindra & Mohammed’ until loyalty to a new nation and financial compulsion changed it to ‘Mahindra & Mahindra.’