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A Great Indian Industrialist: Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, 1839-1904

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

N. S. B. Gras
N. S. B. Gras
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Harvard University
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Jamsetji Tata was once a merchant, like his father, but unlike his father he became a great industrialist. Instead of specializing in one huge concern, he spread out to establish many companies of high quality and strategic importance—the foundation of modern Industrial India. It was in part owing to his work that India was able recently to wage a war on the side of the Allies without much help from Britain.

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Business History Review , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 1949 , pp. 149 - 151
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1949

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1 Mr. James Hazen Hyde called my attention to Tata by sending me a copy of the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts for August 27, 1948, in which an article on Tata appears under the title “The House of Tata—Sixty Years Industrial Development in India” by Sir Frederick James. After reading the article I turned to the book Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, a Chronicle of His Life (Oxford and London, 1925). This biography was not written by a business historian and is based not on records but on interviews with friends and kinsmen of Tata. Nevertheless the book is interesting and the story is significant. Some more recent facts concerning Tata are to be found in “The House of Tata,” Fortune, Jan.,1944, pp. 101–104 et passim.