Lord Swraj Paul

Lord Swraj Paul was born in Jalandhar in 1931. He was educated at Doaba College, the University of Punjab, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. After some years in the family business in Calcutta, he went to England in 1966 and established the Caparo Group, a UK-based international manufacturing business.
Swraj Paul is Pro-Chancellor of Thames Valley University and is the author of a well-received biography of Indira Gandhi published in 1984. He is married to Aruna Paul, nee Vij, and they have four children. Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1983, he became a member of the British House of Lords in 1996.