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TATA, JAMSETJI NASARWANJI (1839-1904)

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TATA, JAMSETJI NASARWANJI (1839-1904) , Parsee See also:merchant and philanthropist, was See also:born at See also:Nosari, in the See also:state of See also:Baroda, in 1839, and went as a boy to Bombay, where he was educated at the See also:Elphinstone See also:College. In 1858 he entered his See also:father's See also:office, and began a commercial career of the highest See also:eminence, beginning with See also:cotton See also:mills at Bombay and also at See also:Nagpur, and ending with the formation of a See also:company to See also:work the See also:iron ores of the Central Provinces on See also:modern principles. One of his best-known achievements was the lowering of the freights on See also:Indian goods to See also:China and See also:Japan, as the result of a See also:long struggle with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Co. He also introduced a See also:silk See also:industry after See also:Japanese methods into See also:Mysore, and built the Taj Mahal hotel in Bombay. But his greatest benefaction is the endowment .of a See also:research See also:institute at See also:Bangalore. He died at See also:Nauheim, in See also:Germany, on the 19th of May 1go4.

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