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Ratan Tata, the patriarch of the Tata group, retired as chairman of Tata Steel on December 28th.

What happens at Tata could influence the other great family businesses that dominate India's private sector and aspire to be global champions.Of the candidates for the top job, there was one family member: Noel Tata, Ratan Tata's half-brother (Ratan has no children).

But in Ratan Tata's case, the attention is merited.

RATAN JADHAV, a shy, slight woman in her 30s, works on a farm in Osmanabad, a remote part of the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

In 2008 Tata Motors switched the site for the plant to make the Nano, a small car, from West Bengal to Sanand in Gujarat after Ratan Tata, boss of the conglomerate parent, received an SMS message from Mr Modi offering him a factory-ready plot for the firm and its suppliers.

And when Ratan Tata, its patriarch, who has no children, retires at the end of 2012, there is no obvious family heir the firm has been trying to find an outsider to fill his shoes.

The car is the pet project of Ratan Tata, the Tata group's revered chairman, who is over six feet tall.

Afterwards, I idled away an afternoon in the town's public gardens, watching children jump the flowerbeds, overseen by a statue of the company's founder, Jamsetji Tata.I have to wonder, though, what he would now think of the energetic leaps made by his descendant, Ratan Tata, who took over the group in 1991.

It needs to consider whether it is time to lop off weaker limbs such as Tata Teleservices, an also-ran in India's crowded telecoms market, and Tata Financial Services.The most immediate task, though, is more humdrum: replacing Ratan Tata.

IF INDIA were a nation of gamblers, the betting on who will succeed Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, would be furious.

More than that would be a stretch: "It's not every day that Ratan Tata buys Jaguar Land Rover," he says.