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In August 1979, a sister township of Navi Mumbai was founded by City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) across Thane and Raigad districts of Maharashtra to help the dispersal and control of Mumbai's population. [178]
1845 – Grant Medical College founded. 1846 – Mahim Causeway between Salsette and Mahim completed. 16 April 1853 – First railway line in India between Mumbai and Thane. 1854 – First cotton mill started. 1857 – University of Mumbai established. 1858 – The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China opens its Bombay branch.
Navi Mumbai, the twin city of Navi Mumbai, was founded in 1979, to help the dispersal and control of Bombay's population. The need for urban development on the mainland across from Mumbai Island was first officially recommended in the 1940s.
Mumbai (/ m ʊ m ˈ b aɪ / muum-BY; ... In August 1979, a sister township of New Mumbai was founded by the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) ...
The present day Mumbai was originally an archipelago of seven islands. Pleistocene sediments found around Kandivali on Salsette Island north of the seven islands by Todd in 1939 indicate that these islands were inhabited since the Stone Age. [1] [2] The archipelago had been named after the Koli Goddess Mumbadevi.
The Mughal Empire, founded in 1526, was the dominant power in the Indian subcontinent during the mid-16th century. The dynasty was founded when Babur, hailing from Ferghana (in modern-day Uzbekistan), invaded parts of North India and defeated Ibrahim Shah Lodhi, the ruler of Delhi Sultanate, at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526. [19]
In 1845, the Grant Medical College and hospital, the third in the country, was founded by Governor Robert Grant. Riots broke out between Muslims and Parsis in October 1851, in consequence of an ill-advised article on Muhammad which appeared in the Gujarathi newspaper. On 16 April 1853 the first-ever Indian railway line began operations between ...
The film production era is said to have commenced in Bombay from 1913 when the first film, Raja Harishchandra by Dadasaheb Phalke made in 1912, was first shown publicly on 3 May 1913 at Mumbai's Coronation Cinema, [21] effectively marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.