New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran on Wednesday announced his resignation from the post, nearly a decade after taking the helm of one of India's most storied companies. A career Tata guy, Chandrasekaran joined TCS in 1987 and went on to become the CEO of the conglomerate's software arm in 2009. In February 2017, Chandrasekaran became the 7th Chairman of Tata Sons.

Here is the list of others who held the post over Tata Group's 158-year history.

Tata Group, which was founded in 1868, was initially led by its founder, Jamsetji Tata. Jamsetji, who began his career with his father's trading firm, later established Empress Mill, a textile mill in Nagpur and also founded the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, which was I...