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Khub Chand Sawhney was born in Srinagar and grew up in both Srinagar and Haripur Hazara, a city in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Pakistan attack on 22nd October 1947 on Srinagar provoked his family’s migration to Delhi. He was 24 years old at the time. Growing up in Kashmir he had developed a basic understanding of shawl-making from his father. He followed his heart’s passion to create an emporium for the most exclusive Kashmiri shawls and craftsmanship in Delhi. With the assistance for migrants from the Government he established an emporium at 94 Main Market, Janpath New Delhi in 1950.