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Kamathipura (also spelled Kamthipura) [1] is a neighbourhood in Mumbai, India known for prostitution. It was first settled after 1795 with the construction of causeways that connected the erstwhile seven islands of Mumbai .
Gangubai Harjeevandas (1928 – 8 September 1977), [a] better known as Gangubai Kothewali [3] [b] or Gangubai Kathiawadi, [3] [c] was an Indian social activist, sex worker and madam of a brothel in the Kamathipura area of Mumbai during the 1960s. Gangubai worked for the rights of sex workers and for the well-being of orphans. [5]
A brothel in Kamathipura. Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), is a city in India which contains the neighborhood of Kamathipura, one of the largest red-light districts in Asia. India is regarded as having one of the largest commercial sex trades globally. [1]
A lane in Kamathipura, a red light district in Mumbai. A brothel in Kamathipura A scene in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district, 2005. India's largest and best-known red-light districts are: 1. Sonagachi, Kolkata: Asia's largest red-light district with over 11,000 sex workers. [7] [61] [6] 2. Kamathipura, Mumbai: Second largest red-light ...
Mumbai Metro : Play House is located at a distance of 700m from the Grant Road metro station on the Line 3 (Aqua Line) of the Mumbai Metro . It is located at a distance of 1.6 kilometers from the Mumbai Central metro station on the Line 3 (Aqua Line) of the Mumbai Metro.
English: Kamathipura locality of Mumbai as seen on 31 Monday 2012,on New Years Eve.This locality is the oldest Brothel locality and was the second largest in Asia till a few years ago. Date Monday(31-12-2012)
Kamathis are a group of people from Mumbai, India who had migrated to the city from the Indian state of Hyderabad state. [1] In 1795, the Maratha army defeated the Nizam of Hyderabad . Following this, many artisans and construction workers from Telangana migrated to Bombay and settled into the flats which were made livable by the construction ...
They were partly handed over to England under this title as part of the dowry of Catherine Braganza when she married Charles II in 1661. The isles and islets had earlier been part of indigenous polities like the Silhara dynasty and the Gujarat Sultanate before they were captured by the Portuguese Armadas in 1534.