Keynote J.R.D.Tata [HARDCOVER] (RARE BOOKS)

From within the pages of one book emerges the considered thought of a man who played a pivotal role in driving the twentieth century’s amazing progress from civil aviation to atomic energy both of which he helped to pioneer in a country the world was wont to consider a mere geographic expression.

Born in France in 1904, Jehangir Ratanji

Dadabhoy Tata was closely associated with the steel industry for over four decades during his tenure as Chairman of Tata Iron and Steel Company. He encouraged the growth and diversification of Indian industry into a host of new endeavours from cosmetics, chemicals and electronics to genetics.

Divided into nine sections, the book consists of excerpts from J.R.D. Tata’s speeches and Chairman’s statements to shareholders made over a period exceeding fifty years. In the opening section, JRD looks back over the eventful decades of his life from the 1920s till the 1980s. The middle section of the book consists of his thinking on economic matters, industry, planning and human relations. The section A Strategy for Survival’ includes his views on the population explosion and thePresidential System, on which he was a pioneering spokesman. In the penultimate section ‘The Emerging Society’, he looks forward to the evolving polity of the twenty-first century.

By confining the thoughts of such a man within a single volume, by bringing before the mind’s eye his essential human qualities, his intrinsically civilised approach to problems, this compilation will help the reader stretch his own thoughts beyond the parameters of immediate concern to the nation’s larger well-being.