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Know Indian Entrepreneurs # 6 Jamshedji Tata

Jamshedji Tata,(3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904)

He was the founder of the biggest ensemble of the industries in India, the Tata Group. He started his adventurous life in business by setting a cotton mill in Mumbai and then one another in Nagpur. His dream was to set-up an iron and steel company, a science institution where one can learn science, a world-class hotel, and a hydro-electric plant, reports KannanWrites. Though one of his dreams, to build a world class hotel, was completed within his life-time with Taj Hotel, his other dreams were fulfilled by his successors for which he had already laid the stepping stones