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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Sir Ratanji Tata<br />
| image = Sir Ratan Tata.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1871|1|20|df=y}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|9|5|1871|1|20|df=y}}<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Bombay]]<br />
| spouse = Navajbai Sett<br />
| parents = [[Jamsetji Tata|Jamsetji and Hirabai]]<br />
| children = [[Naval Tata]] (adopted)<br />
| relatives = [[Dorabji Tata]] (brother)<br />[[Ratan Tata]] (grandson)<br />
}}<br />
'''Sir Ratanji Jamsetji Tata''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|JP}} (20 January 1871, in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] – 5 September 1918, in [[St Ives, Cornwall]]) was an [[India]]n financier and philanthropist.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
He was the son of the noted [[Parsi people|Parsi]] merchant [[Jamsetji Tata]]. Ratan Tata was educated at [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St. Xavier's College]] in [[Bombay]] and afterwards entered his father's firm. On the death of the elder Tata in 1904, Ratan Tata and his brother [[Dorabji Tata]] inherited a very large fortune, much of which they devoted to philanthropic works of a practical nature and to the establishment of various industrial enterprises for developing the resources of [[India]].<br />
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An Indian institute of scientific and medical research ([[Indian Institute of Science]], IISc) was founded at [[Bangalore]] in 1905, and in 1912 the [[Tata Steel]] began work at [[Sakchi]], in the [[Central Provinces]], with marked success. The most important of the Tata enterprises, however, was the storing of the water power of the [[Western Ghats]] (1915), which provided Bombay with an enormous amount of electrical power, and hence vastly increased the productive capacity of its industries.<br />
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Sir Ratan Tata, who was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 1916, did not confine his benefactions to India. In [[England]], where he had a permanent residence at York House, [[Twickenham]], he founded in 1912 the Ratan Tata department of social science and administration at the [[London School of Economics]], and also established a Ratan Tata Fund at the [[University of London]] for studying the conditions of the poorer classes.<br />
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He was a great connoisseur of arts. The [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya]] (formerly [[Prince of Wales Museum]]) has a section displaying the collections of Sir Ratanji Tata (acquired in 1923) along with two other sections that of Sir [[Dorab Tata]] (acquired in 1933) and Sir Purushottam Mavji (acquired in 1915).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maharashtratourism.gov.in/mtdc/HTML/MaharashtraTourism/Default.aspx?strpage=../MaharashtraTourism/MaharashtraMusems/Prince_Museums.html|title=About Maharashtra|publisher=Maharashtra Tourism|accessdate=11 April 2020}} </ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
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[[File:Ratanji Tata Mausoleum Brookwood.jpg|thumb|right|Mausoleum of Ratanji Tata in [[Brookwood Cemetery]]]]<br />
He married Navajbai Sett in 1893 and left for England in 1915. They adopted, [[Naval Tata]] from the family of a distant relative. He died on 5 September 1918 at [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives in Cornwall]], England and was buried at [[Brookwood Cemetery]], [[Woking]], near London, by the side of his father (Jamsetji Tata).<ref name=ta/><br />
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Through an aunt, Jerbai Tata, who married a Bombay merchant, Dorabji Saklatvala, he was cousin of [[Shapurji Saklatvala]] who later became a [[Communist Party of Great Britain|Communist]] [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Member of the British Parliament]].<ref name=odnb>{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|volume=48|year=1904|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=675–676|isbn=0-19-861398-9}}Article on Saklatvala by Mike Squires, who refers to Jamsetji as J.N. Tata.</ref><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
After his death the [[Sir Ratan Tata Trust]] was founded in 1919, with a corpus of Rs. 8 million.<ref name=ta>{{cite web|url=http://www.tata.com/aboutus/articles/inside.aspx?artid=9XKMtvrcrDw=|title=More than a businessman|date=August 2008|publisher=[[Tata Group]] website|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108100707/http://www.tata.com/aboutus/articles/inside.aspx?artid=9XKMtvrcrDw=|archivedate=8 November 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{Cite EB1922|wstitle=Tata, Sir Ratan}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.srtt.org/ Sir Ratan Tata Trust Official website]<br />
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