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Bombay cotton mills (1854)
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1854 — Cowasjee Nanabhoy Davar opens Bombay’s first cotton mill. By 1914 India has about 260–270 mills, most owned by Indian merchants, and Bombay is the subcontinent’s Manchester.
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