Click on the heading for link to read full post in Google Earth Community:The 7 Islands of Bombay: Bombay, now Mumbai, more correctly Greater Mumbai, started out as seven small islands with villages of Kolis, the local indigenous people of this part of Western India. Their main means of living was from fishing and their goddess was Mumba Devi from which modern Bombay was finally renamed Mumbai.
Greater Mumbai includes the northern large island of Salsette or Vasai which remained a Portuguese territory for a longer time whilst the seven islands became English regions after 1661.
Some of the most ambitious reclamation ever undertaken in Asia involved joining these islands that now comprise the island of Bombay and Salsette, by reclaming huge parts of sea separating the islands, as well as vast empty tracts of water along the shoreline of the various islands. There were seven islands when the Portuguese ceded these to the British as 'dowry' for the marraige of the English King Charles II to Catharine of Braganza of Portugal, in 1661.
Mumbai (Bombay) needs no introduction; it is the commercial capital of India with head offices of most of the major Indian businesses, with international banks and businesses having offices here. Mumbai is the political capital of Maharashtra state; it has a large presence of all communities from accross India and is the centre of bollywood films.
Major places of interest are: the Gateway of India and the Taj mahal Hotel, and sighting some of the best classical buildings between Hutatma Chowk (Flora Fountain) to Colaba Causeway and The C.S. Railway terminus( the Victoria Terminus) to the north of Hutatma Chowk (flora fountain), the old Churchgate offices building to the west, the Elphinstone College building, the Bombay Museum and Jehangir Art Gallery on the route to Colaba Causeway. Other must see are the Hanging Gardens and the Parsi burial -the Towers of Silence, both on malabar Hill, the Crawford market and Zaveri Bazaar, the Marine Drive, and Chowpatti beach, Nariman Point and the Oberoi Hilton Hotel and the cluster of high rises there. The world heritage site of Elephanta caves of 1st century B.C. Buddhist art are accross the Bombay harbour, connected by daily motor crafts from the Gateway of India/Appollo pier.
Facts on Mumbai/Bombay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai
everything you possibly want to know: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/india/mumbai/
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Please be cautious on the choice of hotels in India, in Mumbai and most other cities there is a hotel rating....please ask fot the rating before making a choice.
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