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Newspapers in both countries call the Indian government's response to the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 "bungled and botched" (the Hindu of Madras) and a "startling muddle" ( Dawn of Pakistan).
The Company erected its east-coast installations in the year 1642 just down the road from the Dutch, at Mandaraz, pronounced “Madras” by the British.
Is the Madras flown in specially that day?
Indian entrepreneurs developed their own cotton mills in Bombay, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, and Madras, but the new tea gardens were a strictly British affair.
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.