Gopichand Hinduja, listed at his death aged 85 as the richest man in Britain, was one of four brothers who took their father’s Indo-Iranian trading business and turned it into a vast international conglomerate. Gopichand worked closely with SP, head of the family until his death in 2023, when Gopichand took over as chair. View image in fullscreen Gopichand, left, Prakash, centre, and Srichand Hinduja outside a court in New Delhi in 2001, after a hearing on the ‘Bofors affair’. Born in India, Gopichand was in fact the third of five sons of Parmanand Hinduja and his wife, Jamuna – Girdhar, the eldest, died in 1963. More outgoing than the publicity-shy SP, Gopichand was happy to front for the company.
