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In 1996, the newly elected Shiv Sena-led government renamed the city of Bombay to the native name Mumbai, after the Koli native Marathi people Goddess Mumbadevi. [ 185 ] [ 186 ] Soon colonial British names were shed to assert or reassert local names, [ 187 ] such as Victoria Terminus being renamed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on 4 March 1996 ...
In the early years after Indian independence, many name changes were affected in northern India for English spellings of Hindi place names that had simply been Romanized inconsistently by the British administration – such as the British spelling Jubbulpore, renamed Jabalpur (जबलपुर) among the first changes in 1947. These changes ...
Bombay State was a large Indian state created in 1950 from the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding Marathwada) and Vidarbha) was merged with the princely states of Baroda, Western India and Gujarat ...
History of Bombay under British rule (1661–1947) Bombay in the 1880s. Bombay, also called Bom baim in Portuguese, is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world. Once an archipelago of seven islands, obtained by the Portuguese via the Treaty of Bassein (1534), from the Sultan Bahadur Shah of ...
Mumbai (/ mʊmˈbaɪ / ⓘ; Marathi: [ˈmumbəi], ISO: Muṁbaī; formerly known as Bombay[a]) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). [20] Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the ...
History of Bombay in independent India. Mumbai, previously known as Bombay, is the financial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world. Mumbai grew into a leading commercial center of India during the 19th century on the basis of textile mills and overseas trade. [1] After independence, the desire to domesticate a ...
The government of Bombay was administered by a Governor-in-Council, consisting of the Governor as president and two ordinary members. The Governor was appointed by the British Crown on the advice of the Secretary of State for India. The members of his council were appointed from the Indian Civil Service. For making laws there was a legislative ...
1958 – IIT Bombay established in Powai. 1 May 1960 – Bombay becomes the capital of newly formed Marathi -state Maharashtra. 31 March 1964 – Last tram made its journey from Bori Bundar to Dadar. 1982 January – Great Bombay Textile Strike started, by mill workers of Mumbai, under trade union leader Dutta Samant.