INDIA. Town of Jamshedpur. May 1951. Employees of the Tata Iron and Steel Company on their way to work. The industrial complex was founded in 1907 by Jamshedji Nassarwanyi TATA. Over the years it became the nucleus of a huge complex producing textiles, steel, electric power, chemicals, agricultural equipment, trucks, locomotives, and cement. The TATA family was also the largest private funder of technical education and scientific research in India. 1951.