The Marquis of Dalhousies Administration of British India volume 2
The Marquis of Dalhousies Administration of British India volume 2
Edwin Arnold
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The external trade of India grew uninterruptedly under Lord 220 Dalhousie's Administration Chap. XX. Dalhousie's sceptre, mainly, perhaps, by being a rood deal let alone. Calcutta doubled its External trade of tonnage in his eight years ; and the commer- India under c j a j advance of Bombay under one of the best his rule. typical business men of our race, Mr. Richard Spooner, was still more extraordinary. 1 Bom- bay, and not Calcutta, is, it seems, destined to be the maritime capital of India,... though the city of the Ganges may yield its proud crown tardily, and dispute the supremacy in com- merce long. But if only a portion of the cot- ton trade be continued to India, after slavery and oligarchy are crushed in the Southern States, Calcutta will quickly become merely the Venice of the Asiatic Italy, and Bombay her flourishing Leghorn. Not only does the great increase of the Bombay trade under Lord Dalhousie, and before the effect of the cotton crisis, point to this ; but the growing popularity of Poona, the old Mahratta capital, already chosen by the wealthy natives of the West as their inland capital, and all but designated as such by Government, tends the same way.
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