Author: David M.D
Place: Mumbai
Publisher: Himalaya Publishing House
Year: 1998
Pages: 340
Subject: Bombay/ Mumbai
Sub-Subject: History
Keyword: Bombay History
Classification: 720.9
Shelf: C5R1
Accession No: B10
Contents: Forinord, Essay, Commentary, Afterword, Postscript, Edited
Abstract: Preface, many Islands, Many Cultures-One Great City, Genesis, And Then They Were One, When the Muslims Ruled Mahim, The Island of Good Life, Under the Shadow of the Cross, The Dowry for the King, From the King to the Company, Shivaji’s Promise to Pay, The Colonial Legal Legacy, Life and Times of the White Man, Brawls Over Brides, How India’s Coins Jingled, The Mutiny of 1683, Siddi’s Seige of Bombay, When Pirates Ruled the Bombay Sea, Bleak Days for Bombay, Struggle for the Seas, Pearl Harbour-Like Attack, From Riches to Rags, St. Thomas Cathedral, Pioneer Ship-Builders, The Floating Mausoleum, David Sassoon and Sons, The Changing Skyline of the City, Cricket 91 years Ago, Battle for Bombay, Architect of Bombay Presidency, Pioneers in Education