Three Uncommon Views of British Era Bombay, 3 Postcards 1900

Three Uncommon Views of British Era Bombay, 3 Postcards 1900

Three uncommon views of British Era Bombay from three 1900s postcards. The first postcard shows an Arab ship or dhow, dry-docked for maintenance, probably at Mazgaon in Bombay. The second postcard is that of the huge Tata Mansion at Waudby Road (now Hazarimal Somani Road). The mansion faced the Esplanade (Maidan) and was the most palatial of houses in the city at the time.

The third is Wodehouse Road, which runs in the north-south direction connecting Captain Prakash Pethe Marg and Colaba Causeway.  

Also read These photographs of Tata properties serve as a window to Bombay in the 1880s.

Did you know – the dhow, the sea-going ship of the Arabian traders, is believed to be of Indian origin. It was introduced for plying on the coastal trading route between India and Europe via the Red Sea by the Arabs several centuries back.