Shri Sultan Chand ji, founder of M/s S. Chand & Company (1917) and of M/s Sultan Chand & Sons (1950), was pioneer in the field of the publication of school and college level texts by Indian teachers. He had inherited the spirit of nationalism and lofty ideals from his noble father, Master Amir Chand ji (born in 1869), a dedicated teacher, a social reformer, a great patriot and revolutionary, who was awarded death sentence in 1915 for his involvement in the Hardinge Bomb Case.