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Cradled and nursed in the vivid imagination of one towering individual: Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata, Jamshedpur is one of the most beautiful and well-planned cities possible. Jamshetji saw the city in his mind’s eye, as clearly as he saw the steel plant. The grand concept visualiser, however, did not live to see either the steel plant or a single tree of his beloved dream city take root. But the guidelines he left behind for the future, provided a great foundation for the city to grow and flourish. A few years later, the city was named after him, as a tribute to the mastermind behind this Steel City. Construction began around 1909 and India’s first industrial city which was being planned from its very inception started to take concrete shape. But brick, mortar and concrete were not the stuff that Jamshetji’s dreams were made of. He dreamt of gardens, tree-lined roads, airy and spacious homes with sprawling lawns, parks for the city to breathe, playgrounds to stretch young limbs, places of worship for people of all faiths and lots more. All these have long since been embodied in Tatanagar, the Steel City. Early development work was undertaken by Durrell & Co, a civil engineering firm run by Lawrence Samuel Durrell, the father of the naturalist Gerald Durrell (who was born here) and the novelist Lawrence Durrell. Commissioned by the Tata family in 1920, Durrell was responsible for building a tinplate mill, a brick-making plant, an office building, a hospital and over four hundred workers’ houses. Located in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand on the Chota Nagpur plateau, Jamshedpur is surrounded by the beautiful Dalma Hills, and the rivers Subarnrekha and Kharkhai border the North & West of the city, respectively. Tatanagar is a large-hearted city with amenities that provide warmth, comfort and the security of a happy habitat to its residents. Though planned by architects and built by engineers like many other cities. Tatanagar remains unique in the fact that it was conceived by a dreamer. The following pages take a look at the legacy Jamshetji left behind for his worthy successors who brought it to life and kept it evergreen.
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