Jamsetji Tata: The Man Who Brought Revolutionary Waves In Indian Industry

Around 100 companies spread across 7 major business sectors are listed under the Tata Group making it a global brand and all the credit goes to Jamsetji Tata. He is called the “Father of Indian Industry,” and Nehru Ji called him a one-man planning commission because his vision and ideas were so powerful that they impacted the biggest leaders of India and brought a revolution in the Indian industry.

He laid the foundation in 1868 by establishing a trading company with Rs 21,000 capital. Today on his 182nd birth anniversary, we have come with more interesting and inspiring facts about Jamestji Tata. Keep reading further!

Broke The Family Tradition

However, his father was a businessman and had a trading firm. Jamsetji was an intelligent kid with great arithmetical skills so his family decided to send him to Bombay for higher education. After completing his education, he stepped into his father’s business.

He not only took his father’s business to a greater height but also opened his own trading company.

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Great Visionary

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One more vision of Jamsetji was to make Sakchi a great city about which he wrote in a letter to his son. The city was later renamed after him by Lord Chelmsford in the year 1919 and since then it’s popular as Jamshedpur.

Throughout his life, Jamestji taught the true meaning of business to the industrialist. In 1904, he died following serious health issues and was buried in England.