The brothers’ late father, Parmanand, began trading carpets, tea and spices in 1914, in a part of what was then British India but is now in Pakistan. Their UK property assets include the 6,224 sq metre (67,000 sq ft) 18th century Carlton House Terrace near Buckingham Palace and the historic Old War Office building in Whitehall. Three years earlier, the group had bought Gulf Oil from the US oil company Chevron. The empire expanded via landmark deals including the 1987 purchase of the Ashok Leyland group, which included remnants of the defunct British automotive business British Leyland.

The duo built the Hinduja Group from a relatively small family enterprise into a company with operations in 38 countries, spanning sectors including the automotive industry, oil, banking, media and healthcare. The siblings began their careers in India but spent most of their time in the UK since the 1970s. Until his death, Sri led the family dynasty, which employs 150,000 people, with his brother Gopi. The Hinduja family topped the 2022 Sunday Times Rich List, after their collective fortune rose by more than £11bn to reach £28.4bn, the largest fortune recorded in more than three decades of the list.ĭespite the family’s vast wealth, a judge warned last year that Sri Hinduja’s needs, chiefly medical care for Lewy body dementia, had “become marginalised”, amid a family feud over the ownership of a Swiss bank. On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the family said: “Gopichand, Prakash, Ashok and the whole Hinduja family with a heavy heart regret to announce the passing away of Mr SP Hinduja today.”

Family feud set 1987