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Old Book – Bombay Gateway of India 1994
Title- Bombay Gateway of India
Photographs by – Raghubir Singh
Publishers – The Perennial Press
Year – 1994
Edition – First
Pages – 119 pictorial pages
Dimension – 30 x 25 inch
This is a pictorial book on Bombay or Mumbai. The photos are by Raghubir Singh an internationally acclaimed photographer based in Paris. His photo works have appeared for the National Geographic, Life Magazine, The New York Times, and so on. Born to an aristocratic Rajput family in 1942, he died in 1999 due to a heart attack. Mumbai once a group of seven islands joined into a single landmass by the Britishers.
For centuries, the islands were under the control of successive native empires. The Portuguese were the first European colonist of Bombay. Later the British East India Company took over after it was gifted to King Charles as a dowry by the Portuguese. After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 Mumbai became a financial power. See also my post- Vintage Book – History of The Bombay Army 1938.
From the collection- Parel Road To Byculla Bridge Mumbai – Old Photograph 1923., Singapore Suburb With Electric Tram – Old Postcard 1910., Vintage Raja Ravi Varma “Laxmi” Oleograph., Rare Advertisement Taj Palace Hotel Bombay 1907.
