2. Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
Born 3 March 1839
Navsari, Baroda (modern
Gujarat)
Died 19 May 1904 (aged 65)
Bad Nauheim, German
Empire
Ethnicity Gujarati; Parsi
Alma mater University of Bombay
Occupation Founder of Tata Group
Religion Zoroastrian
Spouse(s) Hirabai Daboo
Children Dorabji Tata
Ratanji Tata
Parents Nusserwanji and
Jeevanbai Tata
3. 1839: Jamsetji Tata was born on March 3.
1853: He married Hirabai Daboo.
1858: Joined his father's trade firm.
1868: Established his first independent company.
1874: Set up the Empress Mill.
1901: Travelled to Europe and America to receive
education on making of steel.
1903: Established the Taj Mahal Hotel.
1904: Died on May 19.
4. •Tata was born into
a Parsi family.
•Instead of joining
priesthood he was
the first in his family
who tried his hand
in business.
• He started trading
in Bombay.
5. •He graduated as the
‘Green Scholar’ from
Elphinstone University at
the age of 14
•He was married to Hirabai
Daboo while he was still a
student.
• He graduated from
college in 1858 and joined
his father's trading firm.
•He joined business during
the time of The Revolt Of
1857.
6. •Due to expansion of
knowledge through
successive trips , he was
convinced that there was
tremendous scope for Indian
companies to forge through
and make a foray in the
British dominated textile
industry.
7. •He devoted his life to four goals:
setting up an iron and steel
company, a world-class learning
institution, a unique hotel and a
hydro-electric plant.
• Only the hotel became a reality
during his lifetime, with the
inauguration of the Taj Mahal
Hotel at Colaba waterfront in
Bombay (now Mumbai) on 3
December 1903 (at the cost of 42
million rupees (about 11 billion or
1100 crore rupees at 2010 prices).
•At that time it was the only hotel
in India to have electricity.
8. His successors' work led to the three remaining ideas
being achieved:
•Tata Steel (formerly TISCO — Tata Iron and Steel
Company Limited) is Asia's first and India's largest
steel company. It became world's fifth largest steel
company, after it acquired Corus Group producing
28 million tonnes of steel annually.
•Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the pre-
eminent Indian institution for research and education
in Science and Engineering.
•Tata Hydroelectric Power Supply Company,
renamed Tata Power Company Limited, currently
India's largest private electricity company with an
installed generation capacity of over 8000MW.
9. Personal life
•Jamsetji Tata married Hirabai Daboo.
•Their sons, Dorabji Tata and Ratanji Tata,
succeeded Jamsetji as the chairman of
the Tata group.
•Tata's sister Jerbai, through marriage to a
Bombay merchant, became mother
of Shapurji Saklatvala, who Jamsetji
employed to successfully prospect for coal
and iron ore in Bihar and Orissa.
•Saklatvala later settled in England,
initially to manage
Tata's Manchester office, and later
became a Communist Member of the
British Parliament.
10. Death
While on a business trip in Germany in 1900, Tata became
seriously ill. He died in Nauheim on May 19, 1904, and was buried
in the Parsi burial ground in Brookwood Cemetery,Woking,
England. .
11. City named after him
Tata's iron and steel plant was set up at Sakchi village in Bihar.
The village grew into a town and the railway station there was
named Tatanagar. Now it is a bustling metropolis known
as Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, named in honor of the Jamsetji.
The old village of Sakchi (now urbanized) still exists within the city
of Jamshedpur, as its suburb.
