Many Mumbai's

By Harpreet Kaur Kapoor

The book describes Mumbai what it really was and how it became Mumbai. Its people, their lives, and religious places that one can visit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Harpreet Kaur Kapoor
• Release date: Mar 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215722381

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Many Mumbai’s

By Harpreet Kaur Kapoor

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The articles I have written some time back and were printed in newspapers at different stages and online. I have compiled them into a book.

A City by the sea

A geographical history of Bombay (Mumbai).

Mumbai originated from seven different islands that were joined together to create a single island called Mumbai.

It took over 150 years to join the original seven islands of Mumbai. These seven islands were lush green thickly wooded, and dotted with 22 hills, with the Arabian Sea washing through them at high tide.

Mumbai or Greater Mumbai today encompasses 436 sq km. It has been a natural shipping and trading centre throughout its history and has grown in spite of lying in a seismically active zone.

The original island of Mumbai was only 24 km long and 4 km wide from Dongri to Malabar Hill (at its broadest point) and the other six were Colaba, Old Woman's island, Mahim, Parel, Worli, Mazgaon. However, the list does not exhaust the number of islands that were merged into the modern city of Mumbai. In particular, Salsette the large northern island, which remained under Portuguese control until 1739, is not counted among the seven.

A massive stone causeway across the Flats of the island of Bombay (low lying areas between Dongri and Malabar Hill, separated by Island of Worli), is the only proof of work that was probably done to join the islands before the arrival of the Portuguese. However, after the British arrived, the demand for land