J. R. D. TATA
1904–1993
An Indian businessman and aviation pioneer, J. R. D. Tata started India’s first airline and founded many of the Tata companies that today form the Tata Group—India’s largest conglomerate and a global success story. Socially conscious, Tata also did much to further India’s medical, cultural, and scientific interests.
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was born in Paris to a French mother and an Indian father. He studied in France, Japan, and the UK, where he had hoped to attend Cambridge University to study engineering. In 1925, however, as a French citizen, he was drafted ...
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