X was born to a Parsi family in Navasari, Gujarat. His father was the first businessman in a family of Parsi Zoroastrian priests. X joined his father's business soon after graduating from the Elphinstone College in 1858. In 1868, he started his own trading company with a seed capital of Rs. 21,000. In 1869, he acquired a bankrupt oil mill in Chinchpokli, converted it into a cotton mill and renamed the mill to Alexandra Mill. He sold the mill two years later for a healthy profit. Thereafter he set up a cotton mill in Nagpur in 1874. He christened it Empress Mill on 1 January 1877 when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. He devoted himself to bringing to fruition four of his key ideas: Y, a world class learning institution, a one of a kind Hotel and a hydro electric plant. Only one of the ideas became a reality during his lifetime. The Taj Mahal Hotel was inaugrated on the 3rd of December 1903.
Identify X and Y. Bonus points for identifying what the other 2 ideas led to.
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X is JRD Tata's father.
Y maybe Jamshedpur
The learning institute must have lead to TIFR
Hydro Plant -- Air India???
X- Jamshedji Tata
Y- Steel industry
The other ideas led to IISc, Taj Mahal Hotel and ....
X: J N Tata
Y: Iron and Steel Plant
Ideas: Tata Steel, Indian Institute of Science, Taj Group of Hotels and not sure about the power company.
Jamshedji Tata and IISc.
X = Jamshedji Tata
Y = Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)?
I guess the other 2 things are TISCO and Tata Group?
X = Jamshedji Tata.
Y = TIFR
I know there is a Tata hydro electric plant at Khopoli on the Mumbai-Pune route, so may be that's that.
You already mention the Taj Mahal hotel, so I'm not sure what you mean by the "2 other ideas"
X = Jamshedji Tata
Y = TIFR
The other was Tata Hydro Power.
X = Jamshedji Tata
Y = a people's car - Tata Nano?
The institution = IISc
Dunno the hydro electric plant
Jamshedji Tata
Y= TIFR (Tata Institute of fundamental Research)
X is Jamshedji Tata, Y is TISCO, the institute is IISc, the hotel is the Taj Mahal Hotel and Tata power is the hydro-electric plant. Most of you got parts of the answer right. Great work!
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