Our story · Since 1907
One belief,
carried forward.
A textile mill, a family and a city grew around the same ground. Today that ground is becoming Jamshri City. The obligation to Solapur remains intact.
The continuous line
The work changed.
The obligation did not.
At nineteen, Premratan Damani chose the responsibility of a distressed mill in Solapur. The belief he shaped still guides the company: enterprise owes something lasting to the city that raises it.
The mill gave generations their livelihood. When textiles could no longer continue, the closure protected people first. Jamshri City now gives the same land a new public life.
See how the belief became community work
Archival photograph The brand through the decades
The name kept renewing itself.
Jamshri sold under its own name, over a shop counter and along the side of a bus. The cloth reached each new generation on the terms of its day, from sarees and suitings to jeans and T-shirts.
Archival photograph 
Archival photograph From 1907 to the present
Five eras.
One continuous thread.
The record begins with Jamshri's incorporation in 1907. It follows the mill through changing work and new ventures into the estate's next life.
1907
A mill takes root
An entrepreneur from Jamnagar establishes a cotton-textile company in a Solapur already finding its identity as a mill town.
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18 Nov 1907
Jamshri is incorporated
Lalji Narayanji, an entrepreneur from Jamnagar, establishes the company to manufacture cotton textiles. This is the legal beginning of today's Jamshri Realty Limited.
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1909
The mill enters the industrial record
The Maharashtra Gazetteer dates the establishment of “Shri Jam Ranjitsingji Mill” to 1909. The two dates describe different moments: company incorporation in 1907 and the mill's establishment in the public record.
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1926
From yarn towards a composite mill
The Gazetteer records that production was confined to cotton yarn until 1926. Weaving and cloth would become part of the composite mill that generations of Solapur knew.
1955
Taking responsibility
A young steward steps into a distressed mill, and the mill grows inseparable from the life of its neighbourhood.
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1955
A nineteen-year-old takes responsibility
Premratan Damani acquires the distressed mill. The courage of that decision becomes the family's moral vocabulary: responsibility before comfort.
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1961
A mill at the scale of a neighbourhood
Government records describe 512 looms, 22,132 spindles and more than 2,000 people at work. The scale shows how closely the mill and Solapur were tied.
1985
Renewing the mill
Modern machinery, export markets and independent standards carry Jamshri through a demanding period of textile change.
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1985–90
A sustained modernisation drive
Jamshri renews spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing through successive programmes, including a second scheme backed by financial institutions.
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1989–91
Exports earn recognition
The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council honours Jamshri in two successive years: 1989–90 and 1990–91.
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1993
Investment opens another chapter
A public issue helps fund a ₹28.02 crore modernisation programme, carrying the mill's renewal into the next decade.
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1998–99
Quality is independently certified
Jamshri receives ISO 9002 certification, giving a formal standard to the discipline already expected on the mill floor.
2000s
Learning to build differently
Property and technology become new ways to create useful places and skilled work in Solapur, even while the mill continues.
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2000s
Ankit and Ayush Arcades open a property chapter
Jamshri develops the two buildings as its first real-estate venture. It is an early step towards learning what its land could make possible beyond textiles.
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2008–18
Technology work begins in Solapur
iPing Technologies brings customer services, portal development and customised IT work to the mill compound, creating local opportunities for young people who might otherwise have left the city.
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2015–16
Energy work receives national recognition
The Government of India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency awards Jamshri a Certificate of Merit for energy conservation.
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2018–22
The digital chapter moves into data
iPing Data Labs extends the work into full-stack software, artificial intelligence and machine learning, continuing at the mill compound through 2022.
2018
From mill ground to city
Manufacturing ends with employee dues settled, and old structures begin serving Solapur in new ways.
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18 Nov 2018
The textile chapter closes
Manufacturing ends. The company's annual report records that employee dues, including wages, gratuity and provident fund, were paid in full.
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2021→
The same land takes on a new role
Old buildings begin serving new purposes as Jamshri City creates places to work and gather, with the mill's memory kept visible.
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2023→
The turnaround becomes visible
Westside opens inside the reused mill in 2023, the first anchor of Jamshri City. Ileseum Clubs brings sport and wellness to the campus in 2024. By 2026 the High Street carries names Solapur knows well: Zudio, Star Bazaar, Mr DIY, Adidas, Samsung and the Connplex cinema.
The thread continues
Every generation must put the belief to work.
That continuity now appears in reused mill structures and modern jobs. New public spaces give Solapur another way to share the estate.
How Jamshri builds todayThe story, made physical
The legacy becomes a living city.
Choose the chapter most relevant to you. What is operating today is kept distinct from what remains in planning.
The question that remains
What does an enterprise owe the city that raised it?
Everything we build is an attempt to answer it.