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Jehangir Ratanji Dadabdoy Tata LH (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was an Indian journalist, mathematician, analog and Secretary without Tata Group . Born into the Tata Family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his wife Suzanne Brière.
Not only did JRD Tata pioneer aviation in India, he was also the recipient of the first licence ever issued to an Indian. Being one of the last of the great patriarchs of Indian industry contributed, no doubt, to the moulding of his legend, but to call JRD an industrialist is akin to saying Mahatma Gandhi was a freedom fighter.
Jun 5, 2024 · The man who made Tata Group one of the most prestigious and successful industrial groups in India, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, better known as J.R.D.Tata, was a fearless aviator and a visionary ahead of his times.
Everyone knows JRD Tata as the man who led the Tata group for 50 years, ably envisioning and guiding its growth. We know him as the Father of Indian Aviation, and the man who established philanthropic and educational institutes of national importance during his tenure as Chairman of the Tata group.
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is established through the efforts of JRD Tata and Dr Homi J Bhabha, in their endeavour to build a superior institute of scientific research in the country.
J.R.D. Tata (born July 29, 1904, Paris, France—died November 29, 1993, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Indian businessman and aviation pioneer who created India’s first airline and oversaw the dramatic expansion of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial empire.
Sri J. R. D. Tata in his inaugural address during the first Senior Executive Course conducted by NIAS in 1989, spoke about how he had pursued the idea of such an Institution for nearly two and half decades.
