Tata Group JRD Tata was the capitalist who championed the workers cause. Does that sound like an oxymoron? Well, JRD Tata, to be sure, was a quintessential capitalist, as evident from his open admiration for and support of the Swatantra Party which made no bones about its disavowal of the Nehruvian socialism. C Rajagopalachari, the founder of the Swatantra Party, was a Congressman all through the freedom struggle and a few years after Independence. But he parted company with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, principally on the issue of the economic model the country...