The Bombay Opium Trade started in the late eighteenth century and was an incredibly profitable industry that played a significant role in shaping the economic...
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The Royal Commission on Opium was a British Royal Commission that investigated the opium trade in British India in 1893–1895, particularly focusing on...
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India History of Bangladesh History of India History of Pakistan Opium Trading in Mumbai Secretary of State for India The History of British India Garcia...
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Malwa (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
restrictions on the production and trade of the drug; eventually, opium trading was pushed underground (see Opium Trading in Mumbai for more information). When...
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Sassoon family (category Articles lacking in-text citations from September 2015)
"Rothschilds of the East" due to the immense wealth they accumulated in finance and opium trade, are a Baghdadi Jewish family. Although most biographical data...
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Mumbai (/mʊmˈbaɪ/ ; Marathi: [ˈmumbəi], ISO: Muṁbaī; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial...
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who became the first celebrity gangster in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai). Born in 1926 in a Tamil family in Pannaikulam, near Ramanathapuram, Tamil...
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Tarachand Ghanshyamdas (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
great Ganeriwala Firm Tarachand Ghanshyamdas in 1870, had offices at Kolkata, Mumbai, Amritsar, the Malwa opium belt of Madhya Pradesh and elsewhere. Another...
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David Sassoon (treasurer) (category People from Mumbai)
investing in valuable harbour properties. His major competitors were Parsis, whose profits were built on their domination of the Sino-Indian opium trade since...
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Tata Sons (category Holding companies established in 1917)
headquarters are in Mumbai. Tata Sons was established as a trading enterprise in 1917, and engaged primarily in the lucrative opium and tea trade with Mongolia...
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Currimbhoy Ebrahim (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
businessman based in Bombay. He is credited with founding E. Pabaney & Co, the family held trading and ship owning company whose trading interests extended...
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Jamshedji Tata (category Articles lacking in-text citations from July 2024)
abilities in mental arithmetic. He graduated from Elphinstone College in Mumbai as a "Green Scholar." After working in his father's export-trading firm and...
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Economy of Maharashtra (redirect from Agriculture in Maharashtra)
offices in Maharashtra. The British East India Company controlled Mumbai beginning in the 17th century, and used it as one of their main trading posts....
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(present-day Mumbai) into a major commercial hub. These colonial ports facilitated the export of raw materials such as cotton and opium, influencing the trade patterns...
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David Sassoon & Co. (category Opium Wars)
specialised in trading Indian cotton yarn and opium from Bombay to China. The latter was promoted by the First Opium War and the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 between...
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Baghdadi Jews (category Jews and Judaism in Baghdad)
other Baghdadi Jews in opium, teak, jute, and trading shops, attracted other Baghdadi Jews to Mandalay and communities sprang up in Rangoon and Pathein...
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Futures exchange (redirect from Future trading)
research?] In terms of trading volume, the National Stock Exchange of India in Mumbai is the largest single-stock futures trading exchange in the world...
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participate in this cotton trade. Later, Britain vigorously fostered the trade of opium with China and developed the cultivation of poppy in India. The Ratlam-Mandsaur...
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Ramnarain Ruia (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
College, a college located in Mumbai, is named after him. He was born around the 1860s. In 1883, Ramnarain became a broker to the opium department of Sassoon...
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Ghazipur (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
First and Second Opium Wars with China. The factory as such was founded in 1820 though the British had been trading Ghazipur opium before that. Nowadays...
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Maheshwari (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
Deccan Plateau in the early 19th century, where the opium trade was prominent; they were present as bankers in Hyderabad State by 1850; and in the last quarter...
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Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy (category Parsi people from Mumbai)
philanthropist. He made a huge fortune in cotton and the opium trade with China. Jejeebhoy was born in Bombay in 1783, the son of Merwanjee Mackjee Jejeebhoy...
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Rogério de Faria (category Opium in India)
opium trader Sir Roger de Faria." de Souza, Teotonio R, For Goa and Opium. Goa: Penguin Books, 2006. de Souza, Teotonio R. "French slave-trading in Portuguese...
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the world's largest producer of licit opium for the pharmaceutical trade. But an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug...
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Colonial India (redirect from European colonies in India)
Calicut, which by then was one of the major trading ports of the eastern world, he obtained permission to trade in the city from the Saamoothiri Rajah. The...
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cannabis in India was US$0.10 per gram, the lowest of any country in the world. A study by the German data firm ABCD found that New Delhi and Mumbai were...
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The Man from Nowhere (2010 film) (category Films about organ trade)
dancer and opium addict. Instructed by her lover, Hyo-jeong steals a large pack of opium being sold at the bar where she works and hides it in a camera...
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Elias David Sassoon (category Businesspeople from Mumbai)
business, which included a monopoly of the opium-trade, extended as far as Yokohama, Nagasaki, and other cities in Japan. He was the first of his siblings...
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The Age of Kali (category Books about Mumbai)
participants in the Afghan civil war and other military actions. He visits Kohtal and surveys the opium trade there. He gives the history of the Greek ruins in Gandhara...
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (category Films shot in Mumbai)
was shelved. In November 1942, shortly after the Japanese take over Burma, a group of Chinese men from the Green Gang are unloading opium in Calcutta. They...
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