JAMSHEDPUR, a town in British India, in the Singhbhum district of Behar and Orissa. The town is situated in an angle of the Subarnarekha and Kharkhai rivers, with a station on the Bengal-Nagpur railway. With a pop. (1931) of 83,738, it is the third largest town in the province, though it is less than 2n years old. It owes its creation and development to the Tata Iron and Steel company. Land on a village site was acquired here for the erection of the company's works in 1907, the foundations were laid in 1909, and iron was first produced in 1911. Since then
Jamshedpur has grown rapidly with the expansion of the com pany's business, especially during the World War. It is an in dustrial town with blast furnaces, steel works and rolling mills; the out-turn in 1925-26 was 573,00o tons of pig iron, 470,00o tons of steel and 139,000 tons of rails and beams.