British Physical Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd.

was founded in 1963, during the Licence Raj, by T.

P. G. Nambiar in Palakkad, Kerala, as a company for manufacturing hermetically
sealed precision panel meters for the defence forces.[1][2][3] Nambiar had worked in the United
Kingdom and United States, and when he returned to India, he desired to create a company that
manufactured high-quality electronic products, and he wanted to make BPL a household name.
[1]
 The initial products were precision measuring instruments such as hermetic sealed panel
meters for Bharat Electronics as a subcontract for Indian Army.[4] The newly-founded company
was joint venture with the British company of the same name. [5][6]
Then BPL expanded its medical product ranges to include electrocardiographs and patient-
monitoring systems.[2] After the 1982 Asian Games, BPL expanded its range further and
manufactured colour televisions and video cassette recorders, and later refrigerators, batteries
and other consumer electrical equipment. [3]
The company headquarters was moved to Dynamic House, Church Street, Bangalore.[2] From
medical electronics, it expanded into consumer electronics, telecommunications, soft energy and
electronic components.[2]