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SUMMARY:Linking Business and Philanthropy: The Social Concerns and Philant
 hropic Behaviours of Bombay's Mercantile Elite\, 1845-1870 - Kate Boehme (
 Cambridge)
DTSTART:20121022T120000Z
DTEND:20121022T130000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In the nineteenth century\, Bombay became a hub for the export
  of raw Indian goods such as opium and cotton to overseas locations across
  the Indian Ocean and to as far away as China. In particular\, the dramati
 c increase in commercial activities brought about by the trade with China 
 facilitated the emergence of a powerful Indian merchant class that possess
 ed great wealth and exerted considerable influence in local political and 
 social matters. This group has been credited by some historians as engagin
 g in some of the earliest coordinated public activity in India and\, later
  in the century\, developed coherent economically nationalist discourse. I
 n this paper I will explore the development of this group's civic mindedne
 ss and emerging focus on "Indian" issues through the lens of their philant
 hropic activities. Through an analysis of their patterns of giving it is p
 ossible to gain a greater understanding of how such donations were made th
 rough the cooperative efforts of Indian mercantilists from a number of dif
 ferent caste backgrounds\, as well as how such giving indicated a growing 
 concern with the general welfare of the Indian community in Bombay.
LOCATION:Room 101\, Sir William Hardy Building\, Downing Site
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