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Book Review: Epic Tale of Squabbling Indian Family

Book Review: Epic Tale of Squabbling Indian Family

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John Berthelsen
Oct 01, 2010
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In 1998, Hamish McDonald, then the India correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, published The Polyester Prince, a wide-ranging biography of Dhirubhai Ambani, the free-wheeling patriarch and founder of the Ambani empire, which had grown from petrol station attendant to pushcart seller of polyester textiles into one of India's biggest conglome…

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