Tata family | |
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Current region | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Place of origin | Surat, Gujarat, India |
Members | Jamsetji Tata Dorabji Tata Ratanji Tata Naval Tata R. D Tata J. R. D. Tata Ratan Tata Simone Tata Noel Tata |
Connected families | Petit family Saklatwala family Bhabha family Mistry family |
Heirlooms | Tata Sons |
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. Approximately 18% of the shares are held by the Pallonji Mistry family, and the rest by various Tata sons.
The Tatas are a Parsi family and originally came to Mumbai from Surat in the state of Gujarat. The founder of the family's fortune was Jamshetji Tata. The Tata family is related to the Petit baronets through Sylla Tata, who married Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 3rd Baronet. [1]
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was an French-Indian Aviator, Business magnate, Entrepreneur and chairman of Tata Group.
Rattanbai Jinnah, also known as Ruttie Jinnah, was the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, an important figure in the creation of Pakistan and the country's founder.
Ratan Naval Tata is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and former chairman of Tata Sons. He was a chairman of the Tata Group from 1990 to 2012, and interim chairman from October 2016 through February 2017. He continues to head its charitable trusts. In 2008, he received the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian honour in India, after receiving the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour in 2000.
Nusli Neville Wadia is an Indian billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Wadia Group, an Indian conglomerate involved in the FMCG, textiles and real estate industries among others. His net worth was estimated at US$4.1 billion by Forbes in August 2021.
The Wadia family is a Parsi family from Surat, India currently based in Mumbai, India. The family rose to wealth in the mid-1700s as shipbuilders serving the British East India Company as the latter established its sway over India. During the declining years of the British Raj, Neville Wadia, scion of the main branch of the family, married Dina Jinnah, only child of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Despite being the only descendants of the founding father of Pakistan, the family chose to stick to their mills and factories in India rather than emigrate to the new country. They prospered abundantly under Nehru-Gandhi dispensation and today, they run the Wadia Group of companies, one of the larger industrial conglomerates in India.
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 one of the partners in Tata Sons founded by Jamsetji Tata. Ratanji was the father of J. R. D. Tata.He was the husband of a French woman called Sooni.
Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 1st Baronet was an Indian entrepreneur and founder of the first textile mills in India, as well as a great philanthropist. He was part of the Petit family and became the first Petit baronet.
Sir Dorabji Tata was an Indian industrialist of the British Raj, and a key figure in the history and development of the Tata Group. He was knighted in 1910 for his contributions to industry in British India.
The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust was established by Sir Dorab Tata, the elder son of Tata Group founder Jamsetji Tata. Founded in 1932, it is one of the oldest non-sectarian philanthropic organisations in India.
The Petit Baronetcy, of Petit Hall on the Island of Bombay, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 September 1890 for the Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist Dinshaw Maneckji Petit.
Sir Nowroji Saklatwala, was an Indian businessman who was the third chairman of the Tata Group from 1932 till his sudden death in 1938.
Shapur Sorab Kharegat was a Parsi journalist, editor and former Asia Director of The Economist magazine.
Sir Ratanji Jamsetji Tata was an Indian financier and philanthropist during the British Raj.
Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata was a pioneering Indian industrialist who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company. Named the greatest philanthropist of the century by several polls and ranking lists, he established the city of Jamshedpur. He is regarded as the Father of Indian Industry.
Tata or TATA may refer to:
Naval Hormusji Tata was an adopted son of Sir Ratanji Tata and a noted alumnus of the Tata Group. He is the father of Ratan Tata, Jimmy Tata and Noel Tata.
Suzanne RD Tata, also known as Sooni Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, was the French wife of Indian businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. She is known for being the first woman in India to drive a car, in 1905.
Mithuben Hormusji Petit was one of the pioneer Indian independence female activists who participated in Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March.