Tag: Mumbai History

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 […]

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 […]