Jamsetji Tata

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Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and patriarch of the Tata family who founded the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate. He established the city of Jamshedpur. Born into a Parsi family of priests in Navsari. It was his father Nusserwanji that broke tradition to become the first businessman in his menage. Jamsetji was 20 when he joined his father's already-established small trading and banking business in 1859. He graduated from Elphinstone College in Mumbai as a "Green Scholar." After working in his father's export-trading firm and recognizing opportunities in the cotton industry during a business trip to China, Tata, at 29, founded a trading company in 1868. He later ventured into the textile industry and established Empress Mill, Nagpur, afterwards purchasing a bankrupt oil mill in Mumbai and converting it into a cotton mill. Tata's innovative strategies and commitment to industrial development in India led him to establish...

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