J.N. Tata set up the first iron and steel works in India at:

1. Iron and steel came much later than textiles in India. 2. In 1912 J.N. Tata set up the first iron and steel works at Jamshedpur. 3. Machinery and locomotives were otherwise mostly imported. _Source: syllabus Social Science, 'India and the Contemporary World II', Ch 4 'The Age of Industrialisation'_