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Three Merchants of Bombay: Business Pioneers of the Nineteenth Century

By Lakshmi Subramanian

Book information

Publisher
Random House India
Year
2016
ISBN
978-0143426196
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
56 MB (58785098 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
282\282
Topic
History
Time added
2016-10-15 13:27:23
BusinessIndiaIndian EconomyIndian history

Description

Three Merchants of Bombay is the story of three intrepid merchants who traded out of Bombay in the nineteenth century—Tarwady Arjunjee, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Premchand Roychand—founding pioneering business empires based on trade in cotton and opium. Set against the backdrop of global and local economies undergoing rapid and unforeseen change, these stories stand as a microcosm for the history of indigenous capitalism in western India.In this succinct and lucid account, Lakshmi Subramanian traces that history and locates it in the greater narrative of the economic development of India, South Asia and the world.

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