The $14 billion feud that splintered the billionaire Hinduja family

The family has now called a temporary truce, but the long-running and rancorous dispute has put at stake the future governance of the Anglo-Indian empire

The billionaire Hinduja brothers always presented a united front to the outside world -- four musketeers who espoused a business philosophy that everything belonged to everyone.

Britain’s richest family oversaw an Anglo-Indian business empire that’s lasted over a century from their shared family homes in London, Mumbai and Geneva.

But, with the ailing of the patriarch Srichand, known as SP, who suffers from dementia a feud has splintered the family, including nephews and nieces, uncles, cousins and grandchildren, further apart than anyone knew.

Late last year, funding from the family, with a combined wealth of more than $14 billion, dried