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many an important incident of Mr
Premchund's career might have been
better 'illustrated and many a dominant
factor which was vastly contributory
to raising him awhile to fortune's
highest pinnacle better understood. But
that was not to be. We have to be con-
tent with such meagre materials as already
exist.
If I have undertaken to write this bio-
graphy, it should be understood that I
have undertaken the work as an outsider,
rather than one who was on the closest in-
timacy with its subject or one who had even
a single business transaction with him. I
first knew Mr. Premchund whilst I was
being trained for accountantship in the old
Bank of Bombay in 1864, when specula-
tion was reaching almost its zenith, as the
bank's principal broker in company with
his father, Mr. Roychund Deepchund.
But it happened that I knew him much
better when serving as the assistant to
Premchund's career might have been
better 'illustrated and many a dominant
factor which was vastly contributory
to raising him awhile to fortune's
highest pinnacle better understood. But
that was not to be. We have to be con-
tent with such meagre materials as already
exist.
If I have undertaken to write this bio-
graphy, it should be understood that I
have undertaken the work as an outsider,
rather than one who was on the closest in-
timacy with its subject or one who had even
a single business transaction with him. I
first knew Mr. Premchund whilst I was
being trained for accountantship in the old
Bank of Bombay in 1864, when specula-
tion was reaching almost its zenith, as the
bank's principal broker in company with
his father, Mr. Roychund Deepchund.
But it happened that I knew him much
better when serving as the assistant to