Amritlal Hargovinddas (29 August 1889 – 12 December 1964) was an industrialist, textile mill owner and philanthropist from Ahmedabad, India.
[1] He quickly learned the business and soon became one of the leading industrialists of Ahmadabad and a textile mill owner and also later served as president of the Ahmadabad Textile Mill Owners Association, as chairman of Gujarat State Industrial Finance Corporation and various other organizations.
Amritlal Hargovinddas was responsible for bringing truce between Katurbhai Lalbhai and Vadilal Lallubhai Mehta, both business rivals.
[1] Later on he joined with Kasturbhai Lalbhai and Ganesh Mavlankar to start the Ahmadabad Education Society in 1936, which later evolved into the Gujarat University.
Further, he donated ₹5 lakh (equivalent to ₹7.1 crore or US$830,000 in 2023) in 1946, upon request of Sardar Patel and K. M. Munshi to establish Sheth Bansilal Amritlal College of Agriculture at Anand.