Ratanji Tata
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Ratanji Tata | |
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University of Bombay | |
Spouse | Navajbai Sett |
Children | Naval Tata (adopted) |
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Relatives | Dorabji Tata (brother) Ratan Tata (grandson) |
Sir Ratanji Jamsetji Tata
Biography
Ratanji Tata was born in Bombay in
An Indian institute of scientific and medical research (Indian Institute of Science, IISc) was founded at Bangalore in 1905, and in 1912 the Tata Steel began work at Sakchi, in the Central Provinces, with marked success. The most important of the Tata enterprises, however, was the storing of the water power of the Western Ghats (1915), which provided Bombay with an enormous amount of electrical power, and hence vastly increased the productive capacity of its industries.
Sir Ratan Tata, who was knighted in 1916, did not confine his benefactions to India. In England, where he had a permanent residence at York House, Twickenham, he founded in 1912 the Ratan Tata department of social science and administration at the London School of Economics, and also established a Ratan Tata Fund at the University of London for studying the conditions of the poorer classes. In 1909, he donated a sum of Rs. 50,000 (equivalent to approximately Rs. 40 million in 2022) to Mahatma Gandhi to aid the struggle of Indians' right to work in the Transvaal. This donation helped in securing the finances of Gandhi's protests against the Anglo-Boer rulers.[1]
He was a great connoisseur of arts. The
Personal life
He married Navajbai Sett in 1893 and left for England the final time in 1915. They adopted Naval Tata from the family of a distant relative. He died on 6 September 1918 at St Ives in Cornwall, England and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, near London, by the side of his father (Jamsetji Tata).[3]
Through an aunt, Jerbai Tata, who married a Bombay merchant, Dorabji Saklatvala, he was cousin of Shapurji Saklatvala who later became a Communist Member of the British Parliament.[4]
Legacy
After his death the Sir Ratan Tata Trust was founded in 1919, with a corpus of Rs. 8 million.[3]
Notes
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- ISBN 9780143429647.
- ^ "About Maharashtra". Maharashtra Tourism. Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- ^ a b "More than a businessman". Tata Group website. August 2008. Archived from the original on 8 November 2011.
- ISBN 0-19-861398-9.Article on Saklatvala by Mike Squires, who refers to Jamsetji as J.N. Tata.
References
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. .