India's Tata Succession Struggle

India's largest conglomerate -- the US$71-billion salt-to-steel behemoth Tata Group, is struggling to finding a successor to its talismanic chairman Ratan Tata who will retire in 2012 next year after a spectacular, two-decade run at the group's helm.

In a marked departure from the Indian tradition in which businesses chose their heirs from family, often …