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J. R. D. Tata
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
1904–1993
Also known as: JRD Tata, J R D Tata, JRD
How J. R. D. Tata is discussed in this archive
Authored 1 work in the archive.
Referenced in 20 other works , including D R Pendse on Doing Business in India before 1991 Reforms , D R Pendse on the Criticism he faced through his Career , and Minoo Shroff on Doing Business in Nehru's India .
In D R Pendse on Doing Business in India before 1991 Reforms : JRD is the dominant figure in the narrative — Pendse's boss whose principled refusal to game the License Raj is the through-line of the interview.
In D R Pendse on Liberating India s Entrepreneurs : Pendse explicitly contrasts JRD's law-abiding approach with entrepreneurs who broke unjust laws, citing him as his own ethical exemplar.
In D R Pendse on the 1991 Crisis : Pendse credits JRD Tata for strongly supporting his policy advocacy work within and beyond the Tata group.
In D R Pendse on the Criticism he faced through his Career : JRD nominated Pendse to the Octroi committee and gave him the guiding maxim that shaped his career; Pendse refers to his own book 'I After JRD.'
In D R Pendse on Think Tanks and the Power of Ideas : JRD Tata is the central figure Pendse describes, his employer and the person who acted on his economic policy proposals.
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Primary works (48)
- D R Pendse on Doing Business in India before 1991 Reforms · 2016
- "JRD also was very much perturbed about that. So our experiences were about controls which were becoming worse and worse almost every day." · Establishing JRD's shared frustration with the controls.
- "Tata Power, they wanted to have a 500 megawatt project. For five years, they went down from here to there, there to here, no license given." · Concrete cost JRD's group paid under the licensing regime.
- D R Pendse on his Relationship with JRD Tata · 2016
- "And JRD, he will always say first class, excellent, very good." · Pendse describing JRD's habitual response to his notes
- "So he never never obstructed me from writing anything. Never. Never obstructed me from giving a speech. Never obstructed me to make a comment." · Pendse on JRD's hands-off trust
- D R Pendse on Liberating India s Entrepreneurs · 2016
- "I, I shared JRD's approach, but I can understand them." · Pendse aligning himself with JRD's rule-following stance while sympathizing with rule-breakers
- D R Pendse on the 1991 Crisis · 2016
- "JRD knew it very much, he strongly supported me. And that was my whole function in Tata." · Describing JRD's backing of his economic policy work
- D R Pendse on the Criticism he faced through his Career · 2016
- "He put me on a Octroi alternatives committee. He was against the Octroi, and I was also against it." · JRD's role in placing Pendse on the committee
- "He said, no. I'm not an economist. I will — my Mister Pendse is our economist. I will request him to be a" · JRD deferring to Pendse on economic matters
- D R Pendse on Think Tanks and the Power of Ideas · 2016
- "And JRD, he will always say, "First class, excellent, very good."" · JRD's habitual response to Pendse's notes
- "He had complete faith that I will do something. Whatever I do will be in the interest of the country." · Describes JRD's trust in him
- Minoo Shroff on His Uncle A D Shroff · 2015
- "you must have read in his book by J. R. D. Tata himself that later when the State Bank asked him to become a director, he said, I have no interest." · JRD as biographical source on Shroff
- Minoo Shroff on Doing Business in Nehru's India · 2015
- "Tata had started a steel plant and that led to some building of heavy industry as well" · Pre-independence private industrial foundation
- "Tata Steel played a very key role in supplying, because if we did not have steel, we would not have at least the light armaments, railway equipment" · Tata's wartime industrial role
- Sunil Bhandare on Getting Disillusioned With Socialism and His Journey to Become A Liberal · 2015
- "the JRD Tata, the chairman of the Tata Group used to write in his chairman statement stories about how the companies have been denied the opportunities of expansion and growth." · JRD's public protest against licensing restrictions
- Freedom First · 2011
- Growth, Resilience and Reform · 2011
- The Role of the Judiciary in Parliamentary Democracy · 2011
- Freedom First · 2009
- Energy Security Policy · 2006
- "M. A. Pathan's Energy Security Policy is a Forum of Free Enterprise booklet adapted from his 10 December 2005 presentation at the J. R. D. Tata Memorial Seminar (organised in Mumbai by the Leslie Sawhny Endowment)." · J. R. D. Tata named as the honoree of the seminar at which Pathan's lecture was delivered
- Freedom First · 2006
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Excerpts (3)
- A Rule of Law Society!
- "The law did not say that the airline belonged to JRD Tata and the State has to protect Property, not take it away." · JRD Tata's Air India is used as the concrete example of property taken through legal nationalisation
- Controlling Inflation in India - BR Shenoy
- "among our own business magnates, Mr. J. R. D. Tata." · Tata is cited as a domestic authoritative voice supporting Shenoy's case for inflation control through fiscal discipline
- Free Enterprise in Danger - B.R. Shenoy
- "'schizophrenic policies', as Mr Tata aptly describes them" · Shenoy endorses Tata's characterisation of India's policy incoherence