Tata, J.N. : Jamsetji Nasarwānji (1839-1904): born at Navasāri, Gujarat: educated at the Elphinstone College: a successful & philanthropic industrialist & philanthropist: founded the firm of Tata & Co. at Bombay with branches in the Far East, Europe & America: pioneer of cotton manufacturing industry in West India, he started the Alexandra Mills in Bombay, Empress Mills in Nagpur, & a Swadeshi mill: developed silk culture in Mysore, iron & copper works in Central Provinces: built the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel at Bombay: hoped to build an Institute of Research with a view of providing new careers for promising youths & promote resources of India: until this institute could be started on a financial basis of £14,000, he intended to endow a Trust for sending Indian students to London to complete their education & offered the Govt. of India properties producing a large annual income for an Institute of Scientific Research in India: he died at Nauheim on May 19, 1904. [Buckland]
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