Avid Learning's video: History of Mercantile Bombay Trade Finance and Enterprise

Would you like to know why Mumbai has always attracted the entrepreneurial spirit and what makes it a money magnet? Gateway House Mumbai, Live History India and Avid Learning present “Mercantile Bombay: A Journey of Trade, Finance and Enterprise,” a panel discussion on the book by the same name, authored by Sifra Lentin. The expert panellists discussed Mumbai’s commerce and culture, ports, migrants, finance, its rich mercantile history and how it helped develop a multicultural city. The discussion covered why immigrants and migrants chose this city, the trade wars it survived, the fallout of the American Civil War, and how rivalries between local rulers, European colonial powers and merchant families shaped these tiny seven islands into India’s most important port city and financial capital.