Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lentin, Sifra

Titel

Mercantile and a multicultural city

Ist Teil von

• Mercantile Bombay, 2022, p.104-123

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The sizeable diplomatic corps. in 19th-century Bombay underscored the global primacy of this island city for trade, manufacturing, finance and commerce. In addition to business, the city's consular corp. actively encouraged and engaged with the city's cultural scene like the artists of the Bombay Progressive Artists Group. Overseas influences in films are discernable because of the return of Indian filmmakers and actors, and European refugees who made the city their home during the inter-war years. From foreign companies to the rescue of Polish children from Russia - a feat undertaken from Bombay - the city's consular corp. truly deepened Bombay's engagement with the rest of the world.