Sifra Lentin is a Mumbai-based author and Bombay History Fellow at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, a foreign policy think tank in Mumbai, India. Mercantile Bombay: A Journey of Trade, Finance and Enterprise is her first book on Bombay. Other books written by her are: the Indian Navy’s Western Fleet coffee-table book A Salute to the Sword Arm – a Photo Essay on the Western Fleet (April 2007), and more recently Our Legacy: The Dwarkadas Family of Bombay (March 2018).