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Description of  Mercantile Bombay: A Journey of Trade, Finance and Enterprise (The Gateway House Guide to India in the 2020s)

This volume reclaims Mumbais 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. In doing so it highlights that this city more than any other Indian city still possesses all these virtuous elements making it an appropriate location for a financial Special Economic Zone - an idea shelved temporarily. Read more