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A SHORT HISTORY OF BOMBAY (1534 - 2008) - FROM BOM BAHIA TO BOMB BAY
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Issue Dated: December 14, 2008
Tags : Bom bahia | Portugese | coastal fishing village | Vasco da Gama | Calicut | Haji Ali Dargah | Vapi | Daman and Diu | French | western ghats | Infanta Catherine de Braganzain | Lord Clive | Sirajudullah | New Yorks of East | Hirji Vachha Agary | Tower of Silence | safe haven | Raj Thackeray | mute witnesses | cornucopia of diverse cultures | religions | ethnic identities | Nadir Shah | Peacock Throne | Kohinoor | forefathers of Nusli Wadia | Wadia Docks | Duncan Docks Dhirubhai Ambani | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Ganesh Puja | deity Ganesha | nationalist sentiments | media revolution | mercantile | Bombay Times | Journal of Commerce | The Times of India | The Free Press Journal | Blitz | Old Lady of Bori Bunder | Sikh fighters | Firozepur | penultimate battle | Sir Robert Grant | governor | Presidency | Jolly good Brit | Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy | Grant Medical College | Allopath | Lord Dalhousie | Satara | Jhansi | 21-gun salute | locomotives | Sindh | Sultan | Sahib | Cowasji Nanabhai Davar | The Bombay Spinning Mill | Dutta Samant | farmer suicides |
Tags : Bom bahia | Portugese | coastal fishing village | Vasco da Gama | Calicut | Haji Ali Dargah | Vapi | Daman and Diu | French | western ghats | Infanta Catherine de Braganzain | Lord Clive | Sirajudullah | New Yorks of East | Hirji Vachha Agary | Tower of Silence | safe haven | Raj Thackeray | mute witnesses | cornucopia of diverse cultures | religions | ethnic identities | Nadir Shah | Peacock Throne | Kohinoor | forefathers of Nusli Wadia | Wadia Docks | Duncan Docks Dhirubhai Ambani | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | Ganesh Puja | deity Ganesha | nationalist sentiments | media revolution | mercantile | Bombay Times | Journal of Commerce | The Times of India | The Free Press Journal | Blitz | Old Lady of Bori Bunder | Sikh fighters | Firozepur | penultimate battle | Sir Robert Grant | governor | Presidency | Jolly good Brit | Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy | Grant Medical College | Allopath | Lord Dalhousie | Satara | Jhansi | 21-gun salute | locomotives | Sindh | Sultan | Sahib | Cowasji Nanabhai Davar | The Bombay Spinning Mill | Dutta Samant | farmer suicides |
Around the time Shivaji was battling the Mughal forces of Aurangzeb in and around Pune, the Parsis built their first Fire Temple (Hirji Vachha Agary) and consecrated their first Tower of Silence. After being hounded out of Iran, the Parsis found safe haven in Bombay. A history lesson for Raj Thackeray-the Parsis lived along with the Kolis, the original inhabitants of Bombay. These monuments built in 1672 still stand today as mute witnesses to Bombay’s history as a city of migrants and an affirmation that Bombay was, is, and hopefully will remain a cornucopia of diverse cultures, religions and ethnic identities.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
