Industry
- Basant Kumar Birla, Chairman, B.K. Birla Group
- Rama Prasad Goenka, Chairman Emeritus, RPG Group
- Ramgopal Ghosh, Wealthy entrepreneur who founded his own firm R.G.Ghosh and Co.
- Rajen Mookerjee, Founder of the Indian Iron and Steel Company at Burnpur
- Bhaskar Mitter, Chairman, Andrew Yule
- Subodh Chandra Mullick, Founder of Life of Asia Insurance Company
- Prafulla Chandra Roy, Founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
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“As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside in the White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
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