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TATA, JAMSETJI NASARWANJI (1839-1904)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 448 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TATA, JAMSETJI NASARWANJI (1839-1904) , Parsee merchant and philanthropist, was born at Nosari, in the state of Baroda, in 1839, and went as a boy to Bombay, where he was educated at the
Elphinstone
  College. In 1858 he entered his father's office, and began a commercial career of the highest
eminence
 , beginning with
cotton
  mills at Bombay and also at Nagpur, and ending with the formation of a company to
work
  the iron ores of the Central Provinces on
modern
  principles. One of his best-known achievements was the lowering of the freights on Indian goods to China and Japan, as the result of a
long
  struggle with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Co. He also introduced a
silk
  industry after Japanese methods into Mysore, and built the Taj Mahal hotel in Bombay. But his greatest benefaction is the endowment .of a research institute at
Bangalore
 . He died at Nauheim, in Germany, on the 19th of May 1go4.


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