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Something wrong?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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Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata from Andhrapatrika samvatsaradi sanchika 1911 (page 197 crop)
PM Modi at release of a commemorative coin to mark the 175th Birth Anniversary of Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
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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 him a One-Man Planning Commission. He married Hirabai Daboo; their sons Dorabji and Ratanji carried the group forward after his death on 19 May 1904. The city of Jamshedpur bears his name, and in 2021 researchers ranked him first among history's philanthropists by total giving.
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