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Jewish merchant families – including the Sassoons and other Baghdadi Jewish trading houses – built extensive shipping and commodity trade networks linking Bombay, Calcutta, Basra, and points across the Indian Ocean during the 18th and 19th centuries. Their business correspondence is a major primary source for historians studying Jewish economic life in colonial India.
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