What is the central theme of the book 'The Tatas' by Girīśa Kubera and Vikrant Pande?

Correct — C. The book's full title is The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation, by Girish Kuber, whom the paper prints as Girīśa Kubera.

A family that built a business and a nation is a family with a role in Indian industry and society → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  The Tata family's growth in early modern India — Early modern India conventionally means roughly the 16th to 18th centuries. The Tata story begins in the late 19th century, so the option puts it in the wrong period.
• (b)
  The influence of Tata family on India’s industrial policies — Industrial policy is the government's side of the story. The subtitle is about what the family built, a business and a nation, not about shaping state policy.
• (d)
  A fictional narrative about Tata family's business empire’s moral conflicts — The book is non-fiction, a history of a real family and its companies. A fictional narrative does not fit a title that promises how a family built a business.

When a question asks a book's theme, read the subtitle first. 'How a Family Built a Business and a Nation' names both halves of the keyed option: industry and society.

The Tata group traces its start to a trading company founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868. Its ventures came to include steel, power and hotels.

Key facts

• The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation is by Girish Kuber.
• The Tata group traces its beginning to a trading company founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868.
• Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) was founded in 1907.
• Sir Dorabji Tata was the founding President of the Indian Olympic Association.

Common traps

• Choosing the policy option because the Tatas worked alongside governments. The book's subject is what the family built.
• Picking 'early modern India' as a safe-sounding answer. The phrase names roughly the 16th to 18th centuries, not the Tata era.

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