Hansraj Gupta 1902-1988:A Biographical Sketch

Hansraj Gupta, son of Shri Jati Ram Gupta and Smt Bhagirithi, was born on October 9, 1902 in the house of his maternal uncles at Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan. He was the eldest of four brothers and three sisters. The family belonged to Samana, a small town in Ambala district. Shri Jati Ram was a Tehsildar in the erstwhile Patiala state. Hansraj spent most of his childhood at Rawalpindi with his uncles who were doing well there as government contractors in the cantonment, area. He received all his school education there and passed the Matriculation examination of the Panjab University, Lahore in 1919 from Deny’s High School, Rawalpindi, in high first division winning a University scholarship.