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Ratan Tata was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), during the British Raj, into a Parsi Zoroastrian family, on 28 December 1937. [11] He was the son of Naval Tata (who was born in Surat and later adopted into the Tata family), and Soonoo Tata (the niece of Tata group founder Jamsetji Tata). Tata's biological grandfather, Hormusji Tata was a member of ...
The Tata family is an Indian business family, based in Mumbai, India. The parent company is Tata Sons , which is the main holding company of the Tata Group . About 65% of the stock in these companies is owned by various Tata family charitable trusts, mainly the Ratan Tata Trust and the Dorab Tata Trust .
Jamshedji Tata was born to Nusserwanji and Jeevanbai Tata on 3 March 1839 in Navsari, a city in southern Gujarat. [9] He was born in a respectable, but poor family of priests. His father Nusserwanji, was the first businessman in a family of Parsi Zoroastrian priests. His mother tongue was Gujarati.
Naval was born in Surat on 30 August 1904 to a middle-class family. His father, Hormusji Tata, belonged to a distant branch of the extended Tata family. Hormusji's grandfather, Navroji Tata, was the second-cousin of Jamshedji Tata. Both of them are descended from Bhika Tata. Thus, he was a Tata by birth. [1]
Tata's family also purchased a house on the beach in Neufchâtel-Hardelot where the family would sometimes live until 1917. Tata was also neighbors with Louis Bleriot. [4] Tata attended the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay. In 1917 he and his family moved to Yokohama, Japan and lived there for two years while he attended an American ...
Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (1856–1926) was an Indian businessman who played a pivotal role in the growth of the Tata Group in India. He was the first-cousin of Jamsetji Tata and one of the partners in "Tata Sons" founded by Jamsetji Tata. Ratanji was the father of renowned J. R. D. Tata. [citation needed]
Piloo Minocher Tata 487 0.12 Tata family: Jimmy Naval Tata 3,262 0.81 Tata family: Ratan Naval Tata: 3,368 0.83 Tata family: Sarvajanik Seva Trust 396 0.10 Tata Trusts Tata Investment Corporation: 326 0.08 Tata Group: Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry: 108 0.03 Shapoorji Pallonji Group: Jimmy Minocher Tata 157 0.04 Tata family: Vera Farhad Choksey 157 ...
Ratan Tata was educated at St. Xavier's College in Bombay and afterwards entered his father's firm. On the death of the elder Tata in 1904, Ratanji Tata and his brother Dorabji Tata inherited a very large fortune, much of which they devoted to philanthropic works of a practical nature and to the establishment of various industrial enterprises ...