Buhari Syed Abdur Rahman

Indian entrepreneur

Buhari Syed Abdur Rahman is remembered in business for decisions whose consequences outlived the decade that made them.

The record lists Buhari Syed Abdur Rahman as Indian entrepreneur.

Buhari Syed Abdur Rahman was born at Kilakarai in 1927. His recorded nationality is Dominion of India.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as entrepreneur.

What a company leaves behind is usually infrastructure, habit and employment rather than a name.

That the business was built from Dominion of India shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Buhari Syed Abdur Rahman died in 2015, aged 88. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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