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Knighted in a carriage

"Did you faint from nervousness or from such thing that you can make no mention of it?” Tata Group chairman Sir Dorabji Tata enquired of Empress Mills manager Bezonji Mehta about his receiving his knighthood in 1911 at the hands of King George V in Nagpur. Mehta was being recognized for his dedication and hard work in making the Mills a successful venture providing employment to many. The investiture had taken place, uniquely, in a railway saloon at Nagpur. Surprised that there was no mention of the ceremony anywhere, nor had the manager "talked about it,” Tata wanted "a complete......



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