Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies (CSSAS) invites you to a session on "Global Geopolitics & the Making of Bombay" by Ms Sifra Lentin, Bombay History Fellow, Gateway House, Mumbai.

Speaker: Sifra Lentin is Fellow, Bombay History Studies, Gateway House, Mumbai. Sifra’s scholarship and research interests revolve around Bombay's History and its International Linkages, Jews in Bombay and Karachi, and  India’s Jewish Heritage.

About the Theme:

Bombay (today's Mumbai) since Indian independence has diminished in its financial stature. It was once an international city (albeit in a colonial world) hosting foreign banks, diplomats, foreign trading communities and truly global corporations at the turn of the 20^th century. It was also the capital city of a Presidency that once administered overseas Sind and Aden. 

 This lecture details some early struggles of the city and how events transpired into making it Urbs Prima in Indis or the foremost city east of the Suez Canal at a time when Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and New York were in their infancy.

Zoom registration link for attendees: https://flameuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h5zOeICHTLWX9fPkprsl2Q