Father of Indian Industry Birthplace

This little room is the place where Jamsetji TATA was born. 

Tata was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company.

In 1900 his net worth £4 million. He was so influential in the world of industry that Jawaharlal Nehru referred to Tata as a One-Man Planning Commission.

The Tata ancestors were part of a movement, beginning in the 18th century, in which a large number of Parsis(Iranian Zarrostrian) left Iran for India.

One of the chief centres in India where they came and settled was Navsari, Gujarat, and it was here that Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tara's ancestors lived for more than twenty-five generations as priests.

This single-storeyed 1,500 sq. ft. the house was owned by his great grandfather.

On the occasion of the 175th birth anniversary of JRD Tats, his birthplace has been restored and opened to the public in 2014.

Climb a flight of steep wooden stairs which leads to the upper floor. These could have been the sleeping quarters.

Tata worked in his father's company until he was 29. He founded a trading company in 1868 with ₹21,000 capital (worth US$52 million in 2015 prices). He bought a bankrupt oil mill at Chinchpokli in 1869 and converted it to a cotton mill, which he renamed as Alexandra Mill. 

He had four goals in life: setting up an iron and steel company, a world-class learning institution, a unique hotel and a hydro-electric plant. Only the hotel became a reality during his lifetime, with the inauguration of the Taj Mahal Hotel at Colaba waterfront in Mumbai on 3 December 1903[9] at the cost of ₹11 million (worth ₹11 billion in 2015 prices). At that time it was the only hotel in India to have electricity.