Guptara
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Guptara, family name of India literally meaning "Hidden Star" (in Hindi).
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[edit] Guptara Family History
[edit] Origins
The family derives from the Gupta caste; the family name was changed because the founder of the Guptara family, Professor Murli Manohar Guptara (birth unknown, died 1957), stopped believing in caste (see Hindu caste system).
Guptara is a unique and rare name; every person with the surname Guptara is a direct descendant of Professor M. M. Guptara.
[edit] Founder
Professor Murli Manohar Guptara's father was Lala Ram Swarup Aggarwal. Professor Guptara studied at Oxford University - the first known of his line to do so - and became a noted Professor of English, and author of many books.
Professor M.M. Guptara's first wife was extremely traditional, and he decided to separate from her as it became intolerable for him to live with her, primarily as she used to smash all the nice crockery if people outside the caste were home for a drink or a meal - as the utensils had of course become ceremonially unclean.
Professor M. M. Guptara's second wife, Chinamma Ninan ("Rani"), hailed from Pennukkara, near Chengannur, in central Kerala. She was descended from a line of Christians going back to the conversion of one of the 7 priests in one of the high temples in Kerala due to the preaching of the Apostle Thomas in the first century AD. That family history has been researched, and has been published in the Malayalam language of Kerala, south India. Efforts are being made to translate this family history into English.
Apart from being perhaps the first of the family to study abroad, M. M. Guptara was also the first person in his family line not to have been a businessman (Guptas and Aggarwal are of the merchant, trading, or business caste, Vaishya). However, the business interest was re-established when his son, Professor Prabhu Guptara, established a consultancy in the UK (Prabhu Guptara Associates, which later transmuted into ADVANCE: Management Training Ltd.); and when Professor P. Guptara's son, Ranjeet, established King's Kurry, an Indian restaurant, in Zurich, Switzerland, with the vision of creating a chain of Indian restaurants across Europe.
Sources claim that M. M. Guptara's grandchildren through his eldest child, Prabhu, the twins Suresh and Jyoti Guptara, have dedicated their soon-to-be-published novel to their grandparents from both sides, including in memory of Murli Manohar Guptara.
[edit] Ancestry
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[edit] Guptara Family Today
Today the Guptara family is scattered through India, the U.S., Switzerland and Austria.
[edit] Some Prominent Members of the Guptara Family
[edit] Prabhu Guptara
Prabhu Guptara (born 1949 in Delhi, India)
====Dr.Raja Oellinger-Guptara====born 4.10.1951 presently living in Upper Austria. Chairman & CEO of Geinberg Suites.
[edit] Ranjeet Guptara
Ranjeet Guptara (born 1979 in Edinburgh, Scotland). Founder and Chairman of King's Kurry AG [1]. Guptaras are the majority shareholders[2] of this enterprise.
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