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Mumbai Travel Packages -|- Mumbai Hotels Mumbai / Bombay
Area
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600
sq. km.
Introduction : Mumbai, India's economic
powerhouse, pulses with power and energy. This great city of more than ten
million people is the capital of the state of Maharashtra and also the
commercial capital of the whole country. Center of industry, transportation, and
communication, its fine harbor on the Arabian Sea makes its one of the world's
busiest ports. The city of Bombay was officially renamed Mumbai in January
1996. The mumbaites believe that this name came from the goddess 'Mumba',
worshipped by the original Koli inhabitants. When the Portuguese arrived they
called the harbour Bombaim, which may have stemmed from 'buan bahia', meaning
'good bay' in Portuguese, or was a corruption of the original Koli name. Despite
poverty and eye-watering pollution, it is so dynamic that paupers still flock
there in hopes of becoming successful entrepreneurs. Mumbai is the stronghold of
the Indian film industry. Throughout the year Western and Indian music concerts
and festivals and Indian dance shows are performed in Bombay. , Mumbai is the
industrial hub of everything from textiles to petrochemicals, and responsible
for half of India's foreign trade. History : The city of Bombay
originally consisted of seven islands called Colaba, Mazagaon, Old Woman's
Island, Wadala, Mahim, Parel, and Matunga-Sion. This group of islands has been
joined together by a series of reclamations, formed part of the kingdom of
Ashoka, the famous Emperor of India. Bombay's colonial legacy is the Gateway of
India built to commemorate the Royal visit of George V and Queen Mary in 1911.
The Taj Mahal hotel opposite the Gateway was built in 1903 by Jamashedji N. Tata,
founder of a prestigious industrial house, to counter a ban on Indian entering
the then famous Watson's hostelry. Sir Robert Grant (1779-1838) governed Bombay
from 1835 to 1838 and was responsible for the construction of a number of roads
between Bombay and the hinterland. In January 1899, the Brokers' Hall was
inaugurated by James M. MaClean, M.P. After the First World War the Bombay Stock
Exchange (BSE) was housed in an old building near the Town Hall. In 1928, the
present plot of land was acquired surrounded by Dalal Street, Bombay Samachar
Marg, and Hammam Street. A building was constructed in 1930 and occupied in
December of that year. On Saturday 16th of April, 1853 a 21-mile long railway
line, the first in India, between Bombay's Victoria Terminus and Thana was
opened. The later half of the 19th century was also to see a feverish
construction of buildings in Bombay, many of which such as, the Victoria
Terminus, the General Post Office, Municipal Corporation, the Prince of Wales
Museum, Rajabai Tower and Bombay University, Elphinstone College and the Cawasji
Jehangir Hall, the Crawford Market, the Old Secretariat (Old Customs House) and
the Public Works Department (PWD) Building, still stand today as major
landmarks. The Gateway of India was built to commemorate the visit of king
George V and Queen Mary for the Darbar at Delhi in 1911. The historic session of
the All India Congress Committee began on the 7th of August 1942. Its venue was
the Gowalia Tank Maidan, where the congress was born in 1885. It was at this
session that the "Quit India" call was given by Mahatma Gandhi and other Indian
National Congress leaders. After independence the Congress party led by
Jawaharlal Nehru at the Center was swept to power in most of the Indian States,
which were constituted on the basis of language spoken by the majority of its
people. The Bombay State included the city as its seat of government. In 1960
the state of Bombay was split into Maharashtra and Gujarat states again on
linguistic basis, the former retaining Bombay city as its capital. Gateway of India, Elephanta caves, Hazi ALi Mosque, Jain Temples, Marine Drive, Hanging Garden, Chowpatty Beach, Juu Beach, Flora Fountain, Nehru Planetorium, Breach Candy, Prince of Wales Museum.
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