Mercantile Bombay: A Journey of Trade, Finance and Enterprise

ISBN-13: 9780367774189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 134 str.

Sifra Lentin

Opis

This volume reclaims Mumbai’s legacy as a global financial centre of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century. It shows how Mumbai, or erstwhile Bombay, once served as a central node in global networks of trade, finance, commercial institutions, and most importantly trading communities.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. How Bombay became the confluence of commerce and culture 2. The port and the city 3. Migrants in the city and their overseas networks 4. Émigrés of the Bombay Presidency 5: Finance, desi and videshi 6. Mercantile and a multicultural city

O autorze

Sifra Lentin is a Mumbai-based author and Bombay History Fellow at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, a foreign policy think tank in Mumbai, India. Mercantile Bombay: A Journey of Trade, Finance and Enterprise is her first book on Bombay. Other books written by her are: the Indian Navy’s Western Fleet coffee-table book A Salute to the Sword Arm – a Photo Essay on the Western Fleet (April 2007), and more recently Our Legacy: The Dwarkadas Family of Bombay (March 2018).