Dorabji Tata

Dorab called Tata, Sir Dorabji Tata ( born August 27, 1859 † June 3, 1932 in Bad Kissingen ) was an Indian industrialist who built up with the Tata Group. Tata was the eldest son of Jamsetji Tata, the founder of the Parsi 's Tata industrial group.

He went to Bombay to school and was from 1875 in England, where he received private lessons and then in 1877 the University of Cambridge ( Gonville and Caius College) attended, where he especially excelled in sports. In 1879 he continued his studies at St. Xavier 's College in Bombay, where he took his degree in 1882 and then two years worked as a journalist for the Bombay Gazette. He then joined his father's company at ( mainly from cotton companies and the Taj Hotel in Bombay was ), where he was initially responsible for the production of cotton. He built the steel companies and the associated power stations in the business empire of his father (and thus fulfilled one of his father, who wanted to promote the industrialization and education in India central objectives ), which were the core of the Tata group later. Added to this was under his leadership still a large insurance group. He was supported by his brother Ratan Tata (1871-1918), and his cousin Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata ( father of the founder of Air India and later head of the Tata Group JRD Tata ).

He was also an avid sports fan and was president of the Indian Olympic Society. As a member of the International Olympic Committee, he organized and financed in 1920 the participation of Indian athletes at the Olympic Games in Antwerp and its own Indian participation in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris.

In 1897 he married Meherbai Bhabha who died in 1931 from leukemia. His wife was also a keen sportswoman ( she won some tennis championships) and for women's rights active ( President of the National Council of Woman in India). She is the aunt of the physicist Homi Jehangir Bhabha, who was also promoted by Tata. In memory of his wife in 1932, Tata set up a foundation for the study of leukemia. In the same year died Tata himself, who suffered from diabetes for some time, with a visit to Europe. The couple had no children and left behind an extensive Foundation for the Advancement of Science ( Sir Dorabji Tata Trust), was funded from the 1945 inter alia the establishment of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He also previously funded the establishment of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the University of Cambridge donated (including a chair of Sanskrit ) and an art collection to the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai.

Tata and his wife lying on the Brookwood cemetery in England was buried in a mausoleum, which is modeled in Pasargadae to the Persian king Cyrus. In 1910 he was knighted in the UK and was then known as Sir Dorabji.