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The history of journalism in Bombay commenced with publication of the Bombay Herald in 1789 and the Bombay Courier in 1790. [97] In 1795, the Maratha army defeated the Nizam of Hyderabad. Following this, many artisans and construction workers from Andhra Pradesh migrated to Bombay and settled into the flats which were constructed by the Hornby ...
Ruins of St. John the Baptist Church in Andheri, built by the Portuguese Jesuits in 1579. Bombay, also called Bom Bahia or Bom Baim in Indo-Portuguese creole, Mumbai in the local language; is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world. It's also the cosmopolitan city centre of the Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area, and the cultural base of the ...
12 January 1915 – Gandhi returns to India from South Africa at Bombay. 1920 – Half of Bombay [ Arthur road (Chinchpokli West) to Kalachauki (cotton green station), sewri station- Bharatmata (Lalbaug) ] united in Chinchpokli to celebrate Ganesh Festival. People came from all over Bombay to Chinchpokli in Ganesh Festival.
The H[onourable] C[ompany's] S[hip] Hugh Lindsay was a paddle steamer built in Bombay in 1829 for the naval arm of the British East India Company (EIC) and the first steamship to be built in Bombay. She pioneered the mail route between Suez and Bombay. Hugh Lindsay was lost in the Persian Gulf on 18 August 1865.
Troubadour songs are generally referred to by their incipits, that is, their opening lines. If this is long, or after it has already been mentioned, an abbreviation of the incipit may be used for convenience. A few troubadour songs are known by "nicknames", thus D'un sirventes far by Guilhem Figueira is commonly called the Sirventes contra Roma ...
Gordon Hall (8 April 1784 – 20 March 1826) was one of the first two American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionaries to Bombay, then-headquarters of Bombay Presidency. He was instrumental in establishing Bombay Missionary Union , and he was the founder of the Bombay Mission or American Marathi Mission , the first American ...
Tyler Perry is spotlighting a lesser-known piece of World War II history in his new Netflix film, The Six Triple Eight. Based on a WWII History Magazine article by Kevin M. Hymel, the film, out ...
Fardunjee Marzban was born at Surat [5] in 1787 into a family of Parsi-Zoroastrian priests in Gujarat, and initially trained for the priesthood.His father and grandfather had been scholars of Zoroastrian religious literature (i.e. Middle Persian and Avestan texts), and Marzban followed their example.