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The mood at Essar House, the gleaming glass-cased headquarters of one of India’s top conglomerates in Mumbai, was gloomy. Late in the night of July 19, after a stormy board meeting, the directors of Essar Steel, the flagship of the $4 billion group, admitted that the company would not redeem $250 million floating rate notes that were to mature the next day.

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