Tata family

The Tata family is a prominent Indian business family, based in the city of Mumbai. The parent company is Tata Sons, which is the main holding company of the Tata Group, and about 65% of stock in these companies is owned by Tata charitable trusts, mainly the Ratan Tata Trust and the Dorab Tata Trust. Approximately 18 percent of shares are held by the Pallonji Mistry family, and the rest by various Tata Sons. The Tatas are a Parsi family who originally came to Mumbai from Navsari in the state of Gujarat, by way of Persia. The founder of the family’s fortunes was Jamsetji Tata. The Tatas are the original founders of the Tata Sons and Tata Group.

The Tata family is related to the prominent Petit baronets, a Parsi family, through Sylla Tata, who married Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 3rd Baronet.

Prominent members

• Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904), known as one of the fathers of Indian industry^[1]
  • Dorabji Tata (27 August 1859 – 3 June 1932), elder son of Jamshedji, Indian industrialist and philanthropist. His wife, Meherbai Tata, was the paternal aunt of nuclear scientist Homi J. Bhabha
  • Ratanji Tata (20 January 1871 – 5 September 1918), younger son of Jamshedji, philanthropist and pioneer of poverty studies. After Ratanji Tata died, his wife, Navajbai Tata, adopted an orphan, Naval, who was the grand-nephew of her mother-in-law, and raised him as her own son.
    • Naval Tata, (30 August 1904 – 5 May 1989) adopted son of Navajbai Tata. His biological maternal grandmother had been the sister of Hirabai Tata, wife of group founder Jamshedji Tata. Also, his biological father, Hormusji Tata, had belonged to the broader Tata family, and Naval therefore carried the surname "Tata" by birthright.^[2] Director in several Tata companies, ILO member, recipient of Padma Bhushan. He married twice and had three sons.
    • Simone Naval Tata, second wife of Naval Tata, a French woman and a Catholic. She ran Lakme and served as chairperson of Trent^[3]
      • Ratan Tata, Former chairman of the Tata Group, son of Naval Tata by his first wife Sooni Commissariat
      • Jimmy Tata, son of Naval Tata by his first wife Sooni Commissariat.
      • Noel Tata, chairperson of Trent, son of Naval Tata by his second wife Simone
• Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (1856–1926), one of the early stalwarts to serve the Tata Group. His father, Dadabhoi, and the sister of group founder Jamshedji Tata's mother, Jeevanbai, were siblings. He was also a distant agnatic cousin of Jamshedji, belonged to the broader Tata family. He married Suzanne Brière, a French Catholic, and had five children, including:
  • J. R. D. Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993), son of Ratanji Tata by his wife Suzanne. Longtime chairman of Tata group, also a pioneering Indian aviator and founder of Tata Airlines (later known as Air India)
  • Sylla Tata, daughter of Ratanji Dadabhoy and elder sister of J. R. D. She was married to Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 3rd baronet Petit. Her sister-in-law, Rattanbai Petit, was married to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and Rattanbai and Jinnah's daughter, Dina Jinnah, was the wife of Neville Wadia.^[4]

References

Bibliography

• "Tata family tree". At Tata Central Archives.
• "Tata family". Encyclopædia Britannica.

External links

• Tata family tree, Economic times