Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group (born 1839)
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He broke a lineage of priests to build India's largest conglomerate from scratch — then gave most of it away. A century after his death, the endowments he set in motion in 1892 total over $102 billion, making him the largest philanthropist in recorded history.
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Born 3 March 1839 into a Parsi priestly family in Navsari, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata became the first businessman in his line after graduating from Elphinstone College as a "Green Scholar." He founded a trading company in 1868 after spotting opportunities in cotton during a China trip, then moved into textiles with Empress Mill in Nagpur and a converted oil mill in Mumbai. The scope widened: he built the Taj Mahal Hotel, India's first with electricity; seeded what became Tata Steel and Tata Power; and laid funds for the Indian Institute of Science — ventures so sweeping Jawaharlal Nehru called…
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