How a steamer service from Calcutta transformed Rangoon from an overgrown village to a boomtown – Scroll.in

(The article was first published in Scroll.in on March 30, 2022) 

  • In the early 1850s Calcutta, which was the most important city in the British Empire after London, there was a thriving community of Scots who looked to exploit the opportunities presented by the expansion of the empire…

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