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Haridas Mundhra ( Hindi: हरिदास मूंदड़ा; died January 6, 2018) was a Calcutta -based stock speculator who was found guilty and imprisoned in the first big financial scandal of newly independent India in the 1950s. The Mundhra scandal exposed the nexus between the bureaucracy, stock market speculators and small rogue ...
Bombay State. George Fernandes emerged as a key figure in the Bombay labour movement in the early 1950s. After India's independence from British rule on 15 August 1947, the territory of Bombay Presidency retained by India after the partition was restructured into Bombay State. The area of Bombay State increased, after several erstwhile princely ...
Indigenous tribals have inhabited Mumbai (Bombay) since the Stone Age. [1] The Kolis and Aagri (a Marathi-Konkani people) [2] were the earliest known settlers of the islands. . Between the 2nd century BCE and 10th century CE, the islands came under the control of successive indigenous dynasties: the Satavahanas, Abhiras, Vakatakas, Kalachuris, Konkan Mauryas, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Silharas & C
The Imperial (Mumbai) / 18.9709; 72.8129. The Imperial is a modernist style twin-tower skyscraper complex in the billionaires row of Mumbai, India. It was the tallest skyscraper in India from 2010 to 2019 when it was overtaken by Lodha The Park which was again overtaken by Palais Royale Mumbai. It has been home to several high-net-worth ...
Art Deco is one of Mumbai's least noticed architectural styles, though Mumbai and its suburbs possibly have the largest number of Art Deco buildings in the world. [16] [17] Art Deco in India (and especially in Mumbai) evolved into a unique style that came to be called Deco-Saracenic. Essentially, it was a combination of the Islamic and the ...
Mani Bhavan. / 18.9598778°N 72.811500°E / 18.9598778; 72.811500. Mani Bhavan ( lit. 'Jewel House') is a museum and historical building dedicated to Gandhi, situated at Laburnum Road in the Gamdevi precinct of Mumbai. Mani Bhavan was the focal point of Gandhi 's political activities in Mumbai between 1917 and 1934.
Watson's Hotel (actually Watson's Esplanade Hotel), now known as the Esplanade Mansion, located in the Kala Ghoda area of Mumbai (Bombay), is India's oldest surviving cast iron building. [ 1] It is probably the oldest surviving multi-level fully cast-iron framed building in the world, being three years earlier than the Menier Chocolate Factory ...
The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, affected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. When British rule came to an end in 1947 ...