Three Merchants Of Bombay

Lakshmi Subramanian is professor of history at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. She has a PhD from Visva-Bharati (Santiniketan) and has previously taught at Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, the University of Calcutta and Visva-Bharati.Three Merchants of Bombay is the story of three intrepid merchants-Trawadi Arjunji Nathji, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Premchand Roychand-who traded out of Bombay in the nineteenth century, founding pioneering business empires.Trailblazing in their enterprise, these adventurers possessed the unique ability to find and then exploit the big opportunities that came their way. It was a time of transition, and they prospered because they thought big and took risks. Set against the backdrop of global and local economies undergoing rapid and unforeseen change, the story of these three unique men stands as a proud milestone in the history of indigenous capitalism in India.In this lucid and very readable account, Lakshmi Subramanian traces that history and locates it in the greater narrative of the history of economic development in South Asia.