Sir Sassoon Jacob David, leading cotton merchant and founder of the Bank of India, died here yesterday at the age of seventy-seven. Sir Sassoon David was born in Bombay in December 1849. He was the ...
To understand more about David Sassoon, one has to go back in history to the origins of Bombay – now Mumbai. As history books tell it, Bombay comprised seven islands. They were captured from the ...
It's almost impossible sometimes to create a portrait of a person, whose life story has been written and retold differently throughout history. Author Joseph Sassoon, a professor of history and ...