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The Buddhi Vardhak Sabha (Society for Advancement of Knowledge), also known as the Buddhi Vardhak Hindu Sabha, was a socio-religious reform organization in Bombay (now Mumbai), in British India. It was founded in 1851 by the members of another Bombay reform association, the Jnayan Prasarak Mandali, whose members included Narmadashankar Dave ...
The history of journalism in Bombay commenced with ... Riots broke out between Muslims and Parsis in October 1851, ... was established in Parel in Bombay in the year ...
The Bombay Gymkhana was formed in 1875 and soon organizations such as Bombay Quadrangular followed. Bombay became one of the few cities in the world to include a large national park within its limits, and the Bombay Natural History Society was founded in 1883. The Princess Dock was built in 1885 as part of a scheme for improving the whole ...
Colonel George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, GCSI, GCIE, CB, TD, ADC [1] (3 February 1851 – 24 March 1932), generally known as Lord Harris, was a British colonial administrator and Governor of Bombay, best known for developing cricket administration via Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
The first Parsi–Muslim riot began on 17 October 1851 [1] and lasted for a month, after a copy of a Gujarati article depicted Muhammad.The article, published by Parsi newspaper Chitra Gyan Darpan, was posted on the wall of the Jama Masjid in Bombay. [3]
A little more than a hundred years later, on 1 November 1975, the museum was renamed the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in honour of the man whose vision and dedication enabled its establishment. Bhau Daji Lad was the first Indian Sheriff of Mumbai, a philanthropist, historian, physician, surgeon and secretary of the Museum Committee when it was ...
By 1851, the East India Company's vast and growing holdings across the sub-continent were still grouped into just four main territories: Bengal Presidency with its capital at Calcutta; Bombay Presidency with its capital at Bombay; Madras Presidency with its capital at Madras; North-Western Provinces with the seat of the lieutenant-governor at Agra.
1900 – By this year, 45 trains of Western Railway in each direction were carrying over one million passengers annually. 1908 – Franciscan Missionary Brothers, a German Missionary established St Francis D'Assisi High School in Borivali, west suburbs of Bombay, India. 1911 – King George V and Queen Mary visit Bombay.