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J. R. D. Tata
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
1904–1993
Also known as: JRD Tata, J R D Tata, JRD
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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 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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
- Economic Prophecies · 2004
- "Written in May 1975 in support of statements made by industrialist J R D Tata at an ASSOCHAM seminar, 'Free enterprise in danger' argues that communist infiltration into government and the escalating appropriation of private-sector investment resources by the public sector are placing private enterprise on the path to extinction." · Tata's seminar speech is the trigger for Shenoy's essay
- "JRD Tata's warning of communist infiltration into key government positions is endorsed and elaborated" · summary key-point underscoring Tata as the political-economic ally Shenoy is defending
- EXCELLENCE IN INDUSTRY THROUGH LEADERSHIP · 2001
- "He cites successors R. D. Tata, JRD Tata, and current chairman Ratan Tata as keeping that tradition alive" · places JRD within the Tata succession that carries Jamshetjee's stakeholder ethic forward
- "Quotes JRD Tata to argue that the Tatas have deliberately sacrificed up to "100 per cent growth" rather than abandon ethical standards, and that this restraint is itself a competitive virtue." · JRD's own words are invoked as evidence that ethical restraint is a competitive advantage
- INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT — A STRATEGY FOR INDIA · 1982
- "invoking the Bombay Plan precedent associated with J. R. D. Tata and A. D. Shroff" · places JRD Tata in the Bombay-Plan lineage that Thomas extends to the 1980s investment debate
- LIMITS OF PUBLIC SECTOR IN INDIA · 1979
- "contrasts public steel plants at Bokaro and Durgapur with J.R.D. Tata's TISCO running above rated capacity" · central evidentiary contrast; TISCO is invoked as the private benchmark public steel cannot meet
- Deficit Financing, Inflation and Price Control · 1973
- "He quotes J. R. D. Tata's 1972-73 Tata Iron and Steel annual report to argue that price-fixing authorities have evolved no norms or techniques of costing that would force producer and consumer alike to gain from cost cutting" · Tata's corporate testimony is invoked as an authoritative industry witness against ad hoc cost-plus price control
- Industrial Licensing and Economic Growth in India · 1969
- "quotes J. R. D. Tata at length on the Catch-22 in which a 'Big Business' house is condemned whether it stays inactive, diversifies into small ventures, or undertakes major capital-intensive projects." · Tata supplies the long quotation that animates Mehta's anti-licensing argument
- "He invokes J. R. D. Tata's framing that a 'Big Business' house is condemned whether it stays inactive, diversifies into small ventures, or undertakes a major capital-intensive project — illustrated by the Tata Fertiliser Project delays." · key-points restatement of the JRD framing
- A Look at the Bombay Plan in the Light of Today · 1968
- "the 1944 Bombay Plan — co-authored by A. D. Shroff alongside Purshotamdas Thakurdas, J. R. D. Tata, G. D. Birla, Sriram, Kasturbhai Lalbhai and John Matthai" · places JRD Tata among the original Bombay Plan signatories whose framework Iengar critiques
- "He recalls J. R. D. Tata's call (later vindicated by events) for a "plan holiday" after the third Five-Year Plan" · invokes JRD's prescience to argue that India's planning experiment had failed on its own terms
- The Forum of Free Enterprise · n.d.
- "J. R. D. Tata's offer of a lakh of rupees turned down for a Rs. 10,000 collection" · illustrates Shroff's principled insistence on financial independence
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- 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
