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Product Description This new work highlights the critical role played by Bania credit and capital in the English triumph over the Maratha Confederacy in Western India at the turn of the century. Linking the process of Imperial expansion to the dynamics of Indian credit, trade, and society, this tale of two cities--Surat and Bombay--the author shows how merchant communities coped between two empires, the Mughal and the British. About the Author Lakshmi Subramanian teaches at the Department of History, Calcutta University.