Business
35 min
The Company That Outlasted the British Empire
A priestly family built a fortune inside colonialism, then bought the empire's crown jewels.
The Tata Group was founded in 1868, before India was a nation. It survived colonialism, partition, and liberalisation — then bought Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea using wealth accumulated under the same empire that built them. This is the story of entanglement, not revenge.
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