Tata Group

Companiesdiversified-conglomerate

India's oldest large industrial group, with an unusual trust ownership structure and a literature dominated by authorized histories.

9 books

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  1. The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a NationGirish Kuber, 2019
  2. The Creation of Wealth: The Tatas from the 19th to the 21st CenturyR. M. Lala, 1981
  3. Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian CapitalismMircea Raianu, 2021

Books 9

R. M. Lala · 1981 · The standard group history, repeatedly revised and expanded.
R. M. Lala · 1992 · Authorized biography of the chairman who ran Tata for fifty years.
Mircea Raianu · 2021 · The first independent scholarly history using company archives.
R. M. Lala · 2004 · Life of the founder and the origins of the trust structure.
Girish Kuber · 2019 · Readable outside history of the family and the group.
Peter Casey · 2022 · Access-based modern history covering Ratan Tata and Mistry.
Verrier Elwin · 1958 · Commissioned history of Jamshedpur and the steel works.
Shashank Shah · 2018 · Business-school treatment of the group's operating companies.
Deepali Gupta · 2019 · The 2016 chairman removal and the trust governance structure — No Open Library work record for Deepali Gupta's book; author has no records at all