Queen’s Road, Bombay’s Forgotten Colonial Avenue, 2 Postcards 1900
A 1900 postcard view of Queens Road during the British Era in Bombay (Mumbai). This was once one of Bombay’s most notable roads in the 19th century, because of its picturesque promenade. However, after the Marine Drive came up in the 1920s, through the Back Bay Reclamation Scheme, the importance of Queens Road diminished.
The British-era Queens Road lined the curving Back Bay from Churchgate Station in the south of the city all the way to Gurgaon in the north. The Queens Road became an inner parallel road after the creation of Marine Drive. It was later named the Maharishi Karve Road. Maharishi Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve was a social reformer for the upliftment of women’s welfare. Today, the street is dotted with sari, textile, stationery shops, and so on.
See also Cars at Queens Road.
Did you know – that the Port Trust owns, in all, some 1800 acres or more of land, about one-eighth of the whole island of Bombay, nearly all of its land reclaimed from the sea.
