Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, Indias biggest conglomerate company. He was born to a Parsi Zoroastrian family in Navsari then part of the princely state of Baroda.
Jamsedji Nusserwanji Tata was born to Nusserwanji and Jeevanbai Tata onMarch 1839 in Navsari, a town in south Gujarat. His father, Nusserwanji, was the first businessman in a family of Parsi Zoroastrian priests. He broke the tradition to become the first member of the family to try his hand at business. He started an export trading firm in Mumbai.
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