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The arrival of Indian merchants, including Jains, Parsis, and Jews, turned Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta into large cities; the Company discovered a knack for large-scale administration.
The sights are endless: the Hindu gopuram tower-gates of the south, the temples of Varanasi (Benares), the cave monasteries of Ajanta and Ellora, the beautiful and erotic sculptures of Khajuraho, the splendid marble palaces, fortresses, and mausoleums of the emperors and maharajas in Delhi, Agra, and Rajasthan, the colonial government buildings in New Delhi, or the unusual style of the Gothic-Oriental railway station in Mumbai (known until 1995 as Bombay).
She took with her to England the custom of drinking afternoon tea, and control of Bombay, thus beginning England’s interest in India.
Indian entrepreneurs developed their own cotton mills in Bombay, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, and Madras, but the new tea gardens were a strictly British affair.
Characteristically, the WSJ and the NYT include coverage of an easily overlooked aspect of the world's tensest nuclear crisis since the end of the Cold War--its impact on the Bombay, New Delhi, and Madras stock markets.