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Tata, J. R. D. (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy), 1904-1993

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Personal name headingTata, J. R. D. (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy), 1904-1993
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Variant(s)Tata, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy, 1904-1993
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, 1904-1993
Associated countryIndia
Associated placeFrance
Birth date1904-07-29
Death date1993-11-29
Place of birthParis (France)
Place of deathGeneva (Switzerland)
Field of activityAirlines Aeronautics, Commercial Industries
AffiliationTata Group
Tata Air Lines
Air-India
Profession or occupationIndustrialists Air pilots
Found inHis Keynote, 1986: t.p. (J.R.D. Tata) jkt. (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata; b. in France in 1904; educated in Paris and Bombay) p. 2, etc. (chairman of Tatas, the largest industrial group of companies in India)
Wikipedia, June 13, 2007 (J.R.D. Tata; Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (July 29, 1904-Nov. 29, 1993))
Britannica (website), viewed on November 3, 2021 (J.R.D. Tata, in full Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata; born July 29, 1904, Paris, France; died November 29, 1993, Geneva, Switzerland; an Indian businessman and aviation pioneer who created India's first airline and oversaw the dramatic expansion of the Tata Group, India's largest industrial empire)
   <https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-R-D-Tata>
Air India website, viewed May 6, 2022: history (J. R. D. Tata founded Air India in 1932; he was the first Indian to receive a commercial pilot's license, in 1929; the Tata Group was founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868)
Wikipedia, May 6, 2022: Air India (founded by entrepreneur J. R. D. Tata as Tata Airlines in 1932 (initial name not provided); in 1938 it was rechristened as Tata Air Services and later as Tata Airlines; after World War II it became a public limited company and was renamed as Air India on 29 July 1946; Air India was nationalized in 1953, with J. R. D. Tata continuing as Chairman until 1977)
Associated languageeng