India, Oct. 14 -- How Dhirubhai Ambani took the stock market into middle-class homes and became "Audhyogik Gujarat na Nath"



Gujarat has always understood commerce, thrift and calculated risk. But it took a man from Chorwad to show the state, and the country, what that spirit could truly achieve.



In those days, the Indian stock market belonged to a small circle of wealthy traders and established business families. An ordinary middle-class household saved in gold, land or a bank deposit. Owning part of a large company was simply not on the horizon.



Dhirubhai Ambani changed that. He inherited no empire and came from no business dynasty. What he possessed was far rarer: the ability to dream on a scale others thought impossible, a...