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| 1868–1947 || British India || {{w|Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata}} funds Tata as a private trading firm. Although in his entire lifetime India remains firmly under British rule. Yet the projects he envisioned laid the foundation for the nation's development once it became independent. The firm enters the textile business in the first years. In 1898, Hotel Taj in {{w|Mumbai}} becomes the first hotel of such standard in India, and lays the foundation of [[w:Taj Hotels|Taj Group]] of hotels.
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| 1947–1991 || Independent India || Indian Hotels Company is incorporated in 1902. {{w|Tata Steel}} is founded in 1907. {{w|Tata Power}} is established in 1910. Tata Oil Mills is founded in 1917. {{w|Tata Power}} is founded in 1919. {{w|Tata Coffee}} is founded in 1922. {{w|Tata Chemicals}} is established in 1939. {{w|Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company}} is established in 1945. {{w|Tata Tea}} is incorporated in 1962. {{w|Tata Technologies Limited}} is founded in 1989. Tata-{{w|TIDCO}} launches in 1994.
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| 21st century || Liberal India || {{w|TATA AIG}} starts operations in 2001. {{w|Tata Sky}} is founded in 2006. {{w|Tata Capital}} is established in 2007. [[w:Tata Starbucks|Tata Starbucks Limited]] is established in 2012. {{w|Tata Cliq}} launches in 2016. As of date, Tata Group remains one of the largest and most admired business groups in the world, with 28 listed subsidiaries and more than 80 operating businesses.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trust Ownership of the Tata Group |url=https://research.cbs.dk/en/publications/trust-ownership-of-the-tata-group |website=research.cbs.dk |accessdate=28 October 2019}}</ref>
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==Full timeline==
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| 1839 || March 3 || Prelude || {{w|Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata}} is born in a rural town of Navsari in {{w|Gujarat}} to a family of {{w|Parsee}} {{w|Zoroastrian}} priests.<ref name="India as a Model for Global Development">{{cite book |title=India as a Model for Global Development |edition=Mahmoud Masaeli, Monica Prabhakar |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=M_N0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176&dq=%22tata%22+%22british+india%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxj-ndwOflAhUNIbkGHTiXAOoQ6AEIUDAF#v=onepage&q=%22tata%22%20%22british%20india%22&f=false}}</ref>|-| 1859 || || Prelude || 20 year old [[w:Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata|Jamsetji]] joins his father's small firm, in which Jamsetji gains knowledge about commodities, markets, trading, and banking.<ref name="India as a Model for Global Development"/>|-| 1868 || || Founding || 29-year-old {{[[w|:Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata}} |Jamsetji]] starts the business as a private trading firm trading company with a capital of ₹21,000.<ref name="Tata Group">{{cite web |title=Tata Group |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tata-Group |website=britannica.com |accessdate=17 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="The Complete Story">{{cite web |title=Our Timeline: The Complete Story, Tata group |url=https://www.tata.com/about-us/tata-group-our-heritage/Our-Timeline |website=tata.com |accessdate=18 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="A brief history of the Tata Group">{{cite web |title=A brief history of the Tata Group |url=https://blog.ipleaders.in/brief-history-tata-group/ |website=blog.ipleaders.in |accessdate=18 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 1869 || || Early development || {{[[w|:Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata}} |Jamsetji]] moves into textiles, acquiring in {{w|Chinchpokli}} a bankrupt oil mill in the industrial heart of {{w|Bombay}}. Later on the property would be converted into the cotton mill and renamed as Alexandra Mill.<ref name="A brief history of the Tata Group"/>
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| 1871 || || Early development || {{[[w|:Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata}} |Jamsetji]] sells Alexandra Mill for a significant profit to a local cotton merchant.<ref name="A brief history of the Tata Group"/>
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| 1874 || || Early development || [[w:Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata|Jamsetji]] establishes a textile mill in {{w|Nagpur}}, choosing this city over {{w|Bombay}}, the Indian textile hub. The Empress Mills experiment would prove to be very successful.<ref name="The Complete Story"/><ref name="A brief history of the Tata Group"/>
