#sassoons — Public Fediverse posts
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> Known as the #Rothschilds of the East, the #Sassoons ... marry into the famous #BankingDynasty —and into many other aristocratic families, eventually becoming completely assimilated into the #BritishUpperClass. In Asia, the Sassoon name lives on today in every major hub of the #OpiumTrade in the innumerable buildings, docks, libraries, factories, synagogues, hospitals and other institutions that the family founded in #Bombay, #Calcutta, #Singapore, #HongKong and #Shanghai.
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