The year is 1568, and the Portuguese Jesuits have been given charge of the salty-aired Salsette Island. By 1575, they had built St. Andrew’s Church, but Christianity was still not popular. Enter Brother Manoel Gomes, the Apostle of Salsette. Ordained in 1583, he set about learning the local customs and language. His efforts made Catholicism […]
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Although it is not well-known, the colonial history of Bombay began with the Portuguese. The first Portuguese ship sailed into the Bombay harbour in 1508, and by 1534, the Portuguese seized Bombay from Bahadur Shah of Gujarat. At the time, the city was nothing more than a collection of marshy islands with a few fishing […]
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Introduction
The city I am from was my first fascination. When I was younger, I thought Mumbai was the world, and it ended and began with the sea. As I got a bit older, I learnt about the seven islands and colonisation (in all its ugliness), I realised that history happened all around me in the […]
A Little Bit of Existence 