Tata Family

Tata Family

▪ Indian family
      family of Indian industrialists and philanthropists who founded ironworks and steelworks, cotton mills, and hydroelectric-power plants that proved crucial to India's industrial development.

      The Tata were a Parsi priestly family who originally came from the former Baroda state (now in Gujarāt). The founder of the family's fortunes was Jamsetji Nasarwanji Tata (b. March 3, 1839, Navsāri, India—d. May 19, 1904, Nauheim, Ger.). After an education at Elphinstone College in Bombay, he joined his father's export trading firm in 1858 and helped establish branches of the company in Japan, China, Europe, and the United States. In 1872 he concentrated on cotton manufacturing, founding mills at Nāgpur in 1877 and, later, at Bombay and Coorla. His enterprises were noted for efficiency, for improved labour-protection policies, and for the introduction of finer grades of fibre. He also introduced the production of raw silk to India and planned for the Bombay area hydroelectric-power plants that became the Tata Power companies after his death.

      Tata began organizing India's first large-scale ironworks in 1901, and these were incorporated in 1907 as Tata Iron and Steel Company. Under the direction of his sons, Sir Dorabji Jamsetji Tata (1859–1932) and Sir Ratanji Tata (1871–1932), the Tata Iron and Steel Company became the largest privately owned steelmaker in India and the nucleus of a group of companies producing not only textiles, steel, and electric power but also chemicals, agricultural equipment, trucks, locomotives, and cement. The family's industrial facilities were concentrated in the new city of Jamshedpur, in Bihār state.

      In 1898 Tata donated land for a research institute that was later founded by his sons as the Indian Institute of Science, at Bangalore. The Tata family went on to become perhaps the most important private funder of technical education and scientific research in India.

      Upon the death of Sir Dorabji in 1932, Sir Naoroji Saklatvala, one of the founder's nephews, became chairman of the Tata corporate group. On his death in 1938, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (1904–93), whose father, R.D. Tata, had been a cousin and partner of the founder, became chairman. J.R.D. Tata founded Tata Airlines (1932), which was nationalized in 1953 and split up to form India's chief domestic and international air carriers: Indian Airlines Corporation and Air-India (Air India), respectively. By the late 1950s the Tata group of companies controlled the largest single aggregation of Indian industry. J.R.D. Tata was succeeded as chairman by his nephew, Ratan Naval Tata.

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