Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria CBE, DL is an Indian entrepreneur, immigrant to Britain and a life peer. He is best known as one of the two founders and chairman of Cobra Beer.

Karan Bilimoria was born in Hyderabad, India into a Zoroastrian Parsi family that has a background in the armed forces and business. His father, Lt. General Faridoon Noshire Bilimoria PVSM , popularly known as General Billy, was the General Officer CommandinginChief of the Central Army Command of the Indian Army, who had also served as ADC to the first Indian President, Rajendra Prasad, and commanded theGorkha Rifles during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Lt. General Bilimoria, while General Officer CommandinginChief of the Central Indian Army, was also sent by the Government of India to Sri Lanka in 1990 to review the work of the Indian Peace Keeping Force which had been deployed in that country during the Sri Lankan Civil War under the IndoSri Lanka Accord, and it was on his recommendations that the force was recalled in 1990, ending Indias military engagement with the LTTE.

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