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Kurla had two cotton mills, one of them, the Dharamsi Punjabhai, being the largest cotton spinning and weaving mill in the Bombay Presidency, with 92,094 spindles and 1280 looms. The other was the Kurla Spinning and Weaving Mill. Kurla village had a population of 9,715 at that time.
Kurla (formerly Coorla, station code: C) is a railway station on the Central and Harbour lines of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It is among the oldest railway stations in India, it being part of the original 21 mile (33.8 km) Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) section between Bombay ( Mumbai ) and Tannah ( Thane ) that opened in 1853.
Korla was known as Yuli (尉犁) (reconstructed pronunciation of first character: *i̯wəd) [12] during the Han dynasty.Yuli is said in the Hanshu or 'History of the Former Han' (covering the period 125 BCE to 23 CE), to have had 1,200 households, 9,600 individuals and 2,000 people able to bear arms.
The Church celebrates its feast on the 3rd day of May every year. [1] Since 2015 the local community of Bombay East Indians from the Kurla Christian Village organise a festival known as Holy Cross Parish Fiesta [6] every year to celebrate the church feast There are float parades, East Indian singing competitions, East Indian Band, fancily dressed people, horsecarts taking part in the ...
Kurla Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency presently, after delimitation of Legislative Assembly constituencies in 2008, is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes .
Bandra became part of English territory with the signing of the Treaty of Surat in 1775, but was retroceded to the Marathas in 1779 during the First Anglo-Maratha War. In 1802, Baji Rao II signed the Treaty of Bassein with the English, surrendering sovereignty and again ceding Bandra, and it remained under British control until 14 August 1947.
Gokuldas Tejpal Hospital. Bombay in 1887. Designed in early English Gothic style by Colonel Fuller. Blue basalt facings with arches of Kurla stone, paved with Minton's tiles and roofing with Taylor's patent tiles. Columns made of Kurla stone with caps of Porebunder stone. In 1822, Gokuldas was born in Bhatia community.
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