File:FORBES(1834) A Hindoo Family, of the Banian Cast.jpg

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Date 1834
date QS:P571,+1834-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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British Library HMNTS 010056.g.9.
Notes Banyan merchants is an expression used widely in the Indian Ocean trade to refer to Indian merchants who are clearly distinguished from others, by their clothing, by their religious and cultural dietary choices, and by the manner in which they conduct trade.
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Image extracted from page 10 of volume 2 of Oriental Memoirs ... By J. Forbes ... Second edition, revised by his daughter, the Countess de Montalembert., by FORBES, James. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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