QUESTION =
Until the mid 19th century, European travel to India was complicated, with travelers having to journey across a narrow isthmus after crossing the Mediterranean Sea and then waiting at Aden to be collected by the next steamer bound for India. To pass time, a lavish hostel was built at Aden.
However, this stopover was no longer necessary a little later and the hostel, having fallen into disuse, fetched a whopping 9,300 rupees in the Europeans’ hands. This money was then used to set up an affluent place in India that is an anglicizationof the local words for ‘temple’ and ‘creek’ referring to the place’s vicinity.
Why was this transit no longer necessary? What place, that maintains its elite ways till today, was thus set up?
ANSWER =
The construction of the Suez Canal.
Suez Canal completed in 1889. British involvement in Middle East and India increases.
India :Sends raw materials to England . Purchases finished goods from England.
England : Turns raw materials into finished goods. Sends finished goods to Indian market for sale.
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Suez Canal, Arabic Qanāt al-Suways, sea-level waterway running north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. The canalseparates the African continent from Asia, and it provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans. It is one of the world’s most heavily used shippinglanes. The canal extends 120 miles (193 km) between Port Said (Būr Saʿīd) in the north and Suez in the south, with dredged approach channels north of Port Said, into the Mediterranean, and south of Suez.
Ref.: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Suez-Canal
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