Sunday, June 07, 2009 Aakar Patel Bombay has been a professional city for 300 years and that gives it a culture that is unique. The British came here in the 17th century and set it up as their centre for trade. Because it faced the west, and Europe, the port city soon became as powerful as the political capital of Calcutta, whose port faced east, and then eclipsed it as power shifted to Delhi from Calcutta after 1911. About half the people in Bombay are Marathi-speaking, but even so four of its...
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