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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.
