Dwarkanath

Tagore Sir Jamshedjee Jejeebhoy Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata

By-Prashant Yadav(leader) Ritvique Robin

Dwarkanath Tagore


Dwarkanath Tagore (1794 1846), was one of the earliest entrepreneurs from India, and founder of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family and is notable for making substantial contributions to the Bengal Reaissance. In 1822 Dwarkanath, while carrying on his private ventures, took additional service in the British East India Company as Shestidar to Trevor Plowden Collector for the 24-Parganas. Although the pay was meagre at under 24Rs.500 per year, the prestige and avenues for additional income was considerable and gave Dwarkanath an intimate insight into the functioning of the government. In 1822 Dwarkanath, while carrying on his private ventures, took additional service in the British East India Company as Shestidar to Trevor Plowden Collector for the 24-Parganas. Although the pay was meagre at under 24Rs.500 per year, the prestige and avenues for additional income was considerable and gave Dwarkanath an intimate insight into the functioning of the government.

Dwarkanath Tagore


In 1827 there arose a great scandal in the Salt Revenue department centred on a dishonest Dewan, and assured of Dwarkanath's own personal integrity and character, he was requested to take over as Dewan of the Board. He did not take long to rend asunder the network of corruption which resulted in a counter petition against him to the Board accusing him of defalcation. To clear his name an enquiry was ordered which at each stage of enquiry, by the Board, by the Governor General and finally by the India Office at London cleared him unreservedly. By then Dwarkanath had had enough of Government service and resigned in June 1834 to launch into his spectacular career as a full time entrepreneur. Dwarkanath Tagore died on the evening of Saturday 1 August 1846 at the St. George's Hotel in London during a tremendous thunderstorm.

Ratanjee Dadabhoy Tata



Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (R.D. Tata, 1856 1856 1926) was a Parsi businessman who played a pivotal role in the growth of the Tata Group in India. He was the first cousin of Jamshedji Tata, a pioneering industrialist of India and the Founder of Tata sons. He was one of the partners in Tata Sons founded by Jamshedji Tata. Ratanji is the father of JRD Tata. Ratanji was born in Navsavri in Gujarat in 1856. He studied at the Elphinstone College in Bombay. After graduating, he took up a coursein agriculture in Madras. He then joined his family trade in the Far East

Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata



Tata steel was conceived and commissioned by Jamshedji Tata. However, Jamshedji died before the completion of the project. Ratanji played an important role in the completion of the Tata Steel Project along with Jameshdji's son Dorab and thus Tata Steel was established in Jamshedpur. The Tata`s supplied steel to the British during the First World War. However, after the war Tata Steel went through a difficult period in the 1920s as steel was dumped into India From Britain and Belgium. Ratanji died in 1926 at the age of 70. JRD Tata succeeded him as one of the permanent directors of Tata Sons. On his death Jamnalal Bajaj wrote: "If all businessmen in India would acquire half his love for things Indian, there is no reason why all our enterprises should not flourish." flourish."

Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy

 

Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet (15 July 1783 14 April 1859), was a ParsiParsiIndian merchant and philanthropist. Jejeebhoy was born in Bombay in 1783, of poor but respectable parents who died shortly afterwards, leaving him an orphan. At the age of sixteen, having had little formal education, he made his first visit to Calcutta and then began his first voyage to China to trade in cotton and opium . Jejeebhoy's second voyage to China was made in a ship of the East Company's fleet. Under the command of Sir Nathaniel Dance, this ship drove off a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Charles RearAlexander Leon Durand Linois in the Battle of Pulo Aura. On Jejeebhoy's fourth voyage to China, the Indiaman in which he sailed was forced to surrender to the French, by whom he was carried as a prisoner to the Cape O Good Hope, then a neutral Dutch possession. After much delay and great difficulty, Jejeebhoy made his way to Calcutta in a Danish ship.

Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy



After much delay and great difficulty, Jejeebhoy made his way to Calcutta in a Danish ship. Undaunted, Jejeebhoy undertook another voyage to China which was more successful than any of his previous journeys. By this time Jejeebhoy had fairly established his reputation as an enterprising merchant possessed of considerable wealth. He settled in Mumbai, where he directed his commercial operations on an extended scale. . By 1836, Jejeebhoy's firm was large enough to employ his three sons and other relatives. Jejeebhoy's business interests included the manufacture and sale of bottles, and his nickname was Bottlewaller. He died on 14 April 1859.
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