David Yule: the Scottish businessman whose legacy survives in India
Around Calcutta, its jute mills supplied burlap and rope to global markets. The group also owned the Bengal Coal Company, fuelling railways and factories across eastern India, invested in cotton spinning when Bombay dominated the textile trade, financed insurance businesses, and managed a zamindari estate in Midnapore that developed roads, schools, hospitals, forestry and fisheries alongside agriculture.
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