Long Mumbai History
The country of India has such a long history and Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, has been one of the centers of that history. There are seven islands that make up this metropolis city full of so much energy. There have been inhabitants of the area for thousands of years but it was really around 1498 when the change of power went from the Sultan of Gujarat to the Portuguese. That is when many buildings started to go up. Churches, Forts and the surrounding urban settlement.
The British gained the seven islands in 1661 as a dowry when Charles II married Cathrine de Braganza . Charles II wasn’t interested in the area so he leased it to an East India Company. They were the ones who built the docks and the Fort that pushed this city into a great trading post for the region. Many Euntrepenuers like the Marwaris, Parsis and the Gujaratis came and set up thriving businesses. This new prosperous area was now becoming a city of culture with in the culture. Many of the in inhabitants came from India but they all had a little bit of a different way they expressed themselves.
This city is the place where the first Congress was formed. The India National Congress really pushed the independence of this city and the rest of this country. The city became a large textile mill city deeming it the capital of Maharashtra state. In the 1980 the labor costs soured and many disturbances to that industry happened. Many of the mills were forced to close which brought the city back down for a decade. In the 90s it finally started to come back. It currently still struggles as it is trying to make the infrastructure better. With such a high population in the city it is now redirecting its focus to a more service oriented city. Local service workers sing out hotels, India, Mumbai to the world hoping they will come and stay in one of their new luxury suites.
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