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Gilbert,

Your mail is 99% FICTION and 1% fact.

It is the Birla's not the Tata's that you are referring to. It is the AV 
Birla Group(Hindalco) that bought the Canadian company Novelis Inc., Tata 
Steel bought Corus which is Anglo-Dutch. The industry is aluminium not 
steel. The Tata's made their fortune in Mumbai while the Birla's made theirs 
in Calcutta, the hub of the opium trade.The community in question is the 
Marwaris not Parsis. As any high school student will tell you, the Paris 
came from Persia to Gujarat not Mumbai and the Marwaris moved in large 
numbers from Rajasthan to Calcutta.

AV Birla made his fortune in Jute Mills not buying ships or land and is 
rumoured to have a part in the Bristish Opium Trade(not Hashish or Liquor).

May I suggest a little fact checking before posting?

Sunith Velho

Gilbert writes:
Recently in the news was India's Tata Steel buying the steel company in 
Canada. A history of Tata(s) was outlined in the magazine story.  It 
reports, the great-grandfather (who landed penniless in Bombay from Persia) 
made his first money with the British, smuggling hashish to China and then 
later boot-legging.  Yet from that money, Tata bought (then built) the ships 
they traded, land in and around Bombay ... and India ... and the rest is 
history. 

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