With the support of the new India Foundation, I am writing a book on the historic Empress Mills of Nagpur. This was the first major industrial venture of the Tatas. My research will cover their historic journey, eventual fall, and their indelible impact on my home town.
I would like to hear from readers who had any association with the Central India Spinning, Weaving and Manufacturing Limited that Jamsetji Tata set up in the 1870s.
My research concerns collection of oral and archival history. I am scouring through information in institutional as well as personal and family archives.
The iconic......