Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was born on March 3 1839, in a town called Navrasi in Gujarat. He went to Bombay at the age of fourteen. He graduated from Elphinstone College, Bombay in 1858.In 1868, at the age of 29, he started a private trading firm He was the first member of the family to try his hand in business by breaking the mould of entering into priesthood which was a family tradition. In 1871, he set up the ‘Central India Spinning, Weaving, and Manufacturing Company, Limited’. Being a true nationalist, he foresaw the significance of the Industrial Revolution for India.Therefore he concentrated on three key areas- the iron and steel industry, electrical power generation, and technical education. Steel is the mother of heavy industry, hydroelectric power is the cheapest energy that can be generated, and technical education combined with research is essential for industrial advancement. He believed that political independence would be meaningless without economic self-sufficiency.
In 1898 he wanted to establish a university of science. He offered his properties in constructing this huge venture. He expected that the business community and the government would offer help. After a lot of struggle government, gave the green signal to Dorabji Tata in 1905 agreeing to meet half the cost. The Indian Institute of Science opened in 1911 in Bangalore, many years after Jamsetji’s death. The whole field of industry, technology, and science came within his ambit.
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