Mahindra & Mahindra

Anand Mahindra led the Mahindra Group from a tractor-and-UV manufacturer into a diversified industrial, IT-services and financial-services house, a pivot framed around the explicit idea that a farm-to-auto group could extend into technology and services without abandoning its manufacturing base.

The Mahindra electric-vehicle programme — the earlier e2o and the later Born Electric platform — positioned the group as the only legacy Indian auto house to commit early to EVs, a bet whose commercial outcome remains open but whose strategic intent is settled.