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I have read this book with passion. It chronicles all the major and minor events which was the genesis of the present metropolis. As per the version of Sharada dwivedi, Mumbai was not found by any maharashtrian, or local person. It was first Portuguese, then The British, and later on a few prominent business personalities, like Parsees, Marwaris, Muslim, and Jews who built the city with their Textile mills, and other industries. Among them, Tatas were the prominent ones.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments | 6 |
THE GENESIS OF A SETTLEMENT 1630 18SOs | 15 |
THE EVOLUTION OF A CORE 1860s 1880s | 83 |
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19th century A L Syed A R Haseler Apollo Bunder architect architecture Art Deco Back Bay Back Bay Reclamation Bandra Bazaar BB&CI Bhau Daji Lad Bombay's British buildings built bungalows Byculla centre chawls Chowpatty Churchgate Churchgate Street cinema City Improvement city's Club Colaba Causeway commercial communities completed construction cotton Crawford Market created Cuffe Parade Cumballa Hills Dadar decades Elphinstone Eminence Designs Esplanade Road established Estate Farooq Issa Flora Fountain foreshore garden George Wittet Girgaum Government Grant Road Greater Bombay Gymkhana harbour Hindu Hornby Road Hospital Hotel House Improvement Trust industry infrastructure Jamsetji Kabraji land Mahalaxmi Mahim maidan Malabar Hill Marine Drive Matunga Mazagaon Municipal Nariman Point Oval maidan Parel Parsi Pherozeshah Mehta plots population Port Trust Portuguese precinct Rahul Mehrotra Railway Rajesh Vora residence residential Salsette scheme south Bombay style temple Town Hall trade urban Virkar walls western Wittet Worli
Bibliographic information
| Title | Bombay: The Cities Within |
| Authors | Sharada Dwivedi, Rahul Mehrotra |
| Editor | Umaima Mulla-Feroze |
| Publisher | India Book House, 1995 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 818502880X, 9788185028804 |
| Length | 335 pages |
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