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Who Owns the Tata Legacy? Inside the Constitutional Struggle for the Soul of Indian Economy

FOR WELL OVER A CENTURY , the House of Tata occupied a singular moral and structural category in Indian economic life. It is an industrial empire generating over sixteen lakh crore rupees in annual revenue and accounting for roughly four percent of India's gross domestic product, yet its apex holding company, Tata Sons Private Limited, was owned not by billionaires or public stock market speculators, but by philanthropic endowments. Nearly sixty-six percent of the equity of Tata Sons rests with

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