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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 .
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]
J. R. D. Tata was born on 29 July 1904 to an Indian Parsi family in Paris, France. He was the second child of businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his French wife, Suzanne "Sooni" Brière . [ 2 ] His father was the first cousin of Jamsetji Tata , a pioneer industrialist in India.
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]
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 ...
Suzanne RD Tata (nee Brière, 1880–1923), also known as Sooni Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, was the French wife of Indian businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. [1] She is known for being the first woman in India to drive a car, in 1905.
His grandson Fali, went on to become Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, the 3rd Baronet, and was married to Sylla Tata, a member of the Tata family. Fali’s sister, Ratanbai Petit was the wife of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [3] His other grandson was industrialist Jehangir Bomanji Petit.