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Dhandha: How Gujaratis Do Business

The instinct, grit, and trading sense behind Gujarati business success.

by Shobha Bondre

Dhandha profiles several successful Gujarati entrepreneurs, including a diamond merchant, a New York Life insurance agent, a motel owner, and hotel and manufacturing families. Through their stories, Bondre explores the ambition, capacity for hard work, and innate business sense associated with the Gujarati community. The book reads as a study of a distinctive entrepreneurial culture.

It distills a community-wide approach to risk, frugality, networks, and relentless hustle that founders can learn from regardless of background. The case studies show how trading instincts and family enterprise scale into substantial businesses.

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