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The Suez Canal transformed Mumbai—and its sex trade
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On Nov. 27, 1869, 10 days after the Suez Canal had been inaugurated in Egypt, disaster struck the first ship headed to India laden with cargo. The Bombay Guardian reported mournfully that a ship called the Noel from Bordeaux had sunk in the Red Sea. “The barque came through the Suez Canal…bound for Bombay, with a cargo of wines,” the newspaper noted.But that didn’t put a crimp on operations. The opening of the Suez Canal—connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea—revolutionised trade between Europe and India by cutting travel time from England to the subcontinent from more than three months to four or five weeks. Before this, ships had to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in South Afric

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