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A streetscape postcard of the Dockyard road that shows the circular structure of Bombay's ice-house, constructed in 1843 from a public subscription of Rs 10,000. Ice was imported into Bombay from New England (U.S.A.), and the voyage in the age of sail took roughly four months.
Image courtesy: Eminence Designs Pvt Ltd. Bombay The Cities Within (1995) Courtesy: Eminence Designs Pvt Ltd.
27 October 2016

Breaking the ice: U.S. trade with Bombay

BY Sifra Lentin

The trade between Bombay and America’s north eastern ports 200 years ago was unique as it coexisted with the period’s territorial colonial monopolies. This article retraces those routes to riches in light of the Indo-U.S. Strategic Partnership.

TAGGED UNDER: bombay, India, Indo-U.S., Indo-U.S. Trade, Mumbai, Trade, U.S., U.S. Elections

3.1. Cotton bales lying at Bombay terminus  Photo Dr. Jehangir S. Sorabjee - Copy Courtesy: Dr. Jehangir Sorabjee
20 October 2016

Bombay and the founding of Shanghai

BY Sifra Lentin

The recent inauguration of the New Development Bank in Shanghai has made that city a focal point of international financial transactions between the five BRICS countries. This occasions revisiting some of the ways in which Bombay has been historically linked to it

TAGGED UNDER: bombay, BRICS, China, David Sasson, emerging economies, History, India, Mumbai, Shanghai

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13 October 2016

Bombay-Burma links run deep

BY Sifra Lentin

Mumbai and Myanmar share a historically significant link that is little known today as ties weakened after the military takeover of Myanmar in 1962. But now its newly democratic, globalising presence offers a window of opportunity for Indian businesses, both big and small, to make a foray

TAGGED UNDER: Bombay-Burma, Global Vipassana Pagoda, Mumbai, Myanmar, rangoon

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