Nanji Kalidas Mehta

Nanji Kalidas Mehta,Raj Ratna, MBE (17 November 1887 – 25 August 1969) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist from Gujarat.

As an active member of the sect, he was instrumental in starting many Arya Samaj affiliated schools, colleges, and temples in East Africa as well as India.

Later he ventured in to sugar manufacturing, tea and coffee plantations in that region.At Port Mashindi on the River Nile, Uganda he started the Hoima Cotton Company.

[10] On the original building of Muljibhai Madhvani's office in Jinja, Nanjibhai's name still appears as DUKA YA KALIDASI, a mark of their friendship.

[16] The happy girls working in Maharana Mills at Probandar used to sing in his praise: Nanji's lamp burns in Japan Nanji Seth is lamp of our heart [17] In 1966, he published his Autobiography named Dreams half expressed,[18] where he mentions, "The way to success is a hard road to travel.

Disappointments and failures dishearten us in the midst of struggle but a man of enterprise has to pass through the period with patience and cheerfulness till he gets his well deserved returns.

Maharana Sri Natwarsinhji and a title of Dhrama Ratna (defender of faith) by the poet, Kaka Kalelkar.