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Falguni Nayar
And Other India
Inc Women

Falguni Nayar, who founded Nykaa, is India's wealthiest self-made female billionaire

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Falguni Nayar's net worth rose to $6.5 billion as her beauty start-up hit the stock exchange

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Savitri Jindal, India's wealthiest woman, heads the OP Jindal Group along with her sons

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A former Haryana minister, 71-year-old Ms Jindal is valued at $12.8 billion

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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, valued at $3.6 billion, founded pharma company Biocon in 1978

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Her company Biocon has Asia's largest insulin factory in Malaysia, according to Forbes

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Smita Crishna-Godrej, who is from the Godrej clan, is valued at $2.7 billion

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Trivia: In 2014, Smita Crishna-Godrej bought a house belonging to late nuclear physicist Homi Bhabha at over Rs 370 crore

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Leena Tewari features among India's richest women with a net worth of $4.3 billion

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Ms Tewari chairs the pharma company USV Private Limited, set up by her grandfather Vithal Gandhi

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