A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Since its publication in the columns of the Advocate Qf India I was more than once urged by its editor as well as by other friends to put the articles in a collected form for purposes of permanent interest, if not of reference also. I hesitated for a long time for one reason or another till at last I was urged on by my old and esteemed friend, Mr. G. A. Kittredge, now retired, who in 1864-65 was a member of a well-known firm in the city. This brochure is the result. I have embraced the opportunity not only to revise and amplify the original matter but introduce some supplementary one without which I thought the narrative would be incomplete. I now leave it to the public to judge of its merits, only observing that every fact recorded is based on official and otherauthentic publications. The book has not been pub lished with the object of any gain whatsoever. I dedicate it to the banking and mercantile public as a permanent record of the salient events of those stirring days. I shall deem myself amply rewarded for my labour if it serves, even after forty-five years of that event in the financial history of Bombay, to point the moral which still seems to be sorely needed.

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