The Documents in our Collections depict the history of the Tata Group and its holding companies. They also elucidate the Group’s role in the economic development of India.

These Documents include Formation Papers, Annual Reports, Board Minutes, Business and Trade and Accounting Records, Legal Matters, Labour Welfare Measures, Board Minutes, Biographies, History Projects, Publications, Speeches, In-house Journals, and Advertisements.

The Annual Reports of the Jamsetji Tata’s first venture, the Central India Weaving and Manufacturing Company dating back to 1875, are the oldest documents in the Archives.

The Philanthropic Activities of the Group dating back to 1892 are well documented. The first J.N. Tata Endowment Agreement with Freany K.R. Cama, which was signed by Jamsetji Tata is in the possession of the Archives and portrays the Philanthropic involvement of the Tata Group since its early days.

The comprehensive records of J.R.D. Tata form the core of the Collections in the Document section. They include his personal papers and documents starting from his school days till he passed away in 1993.

Tata Central Archives has more than a lakh Newspaper Clippings, the earliest dating back to The Times of India, Domestic Occurrences, Bombay Marriages, Dorabji Tata with Meherbai etc.

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	The first balance sheet with the abstract of the profit and loss account of the Central India Spinning Weaving and Manufacturing Company Limited, 1875
	The first J. N. Tata Agreement signed by J. N. Tata and Freany K. R. Cama in 1892.
	Letter written by Dadabhai Naoroji to Jamsetji Tata in 1903, in which Dadabhai Naoraji refers to the ‘drain theory’ in simple words.
	An advertisement published in the “Daily Telegraph” in 1927.
	J.R.D.Tata’s aviator’s certificate issued by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, British Empire bearing “No.1” dated February 10, 1929, by The Royal Aero Club, The Aero Club of India and Burma, and the Associated Royal Aero Club of Great Britain.
	J.R.D. Tata’s message on the occasion of Independence of India -  A Special Number of the in-house Magazine “Tata Monthly Bulletin” Vol. II, No. 8 dated August 15, 1947.
	The First Day Cover issued by the Indian Posts and Telegraphs  Department in 1965.
	A copy of the typewritten letter written by J.R.D. Tata to Aspy Engineer thanking  him for his felicitations received on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Indian’s first airline. The letter is dated 19th October 1957.
	The first edition of Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata – A Chronicle of his Life by F. R. Harris, printed by the Oxford University Press, London: Humphrey Milford in 1925.