The Viceroy & Government House Bombay – 2 Postcards 1912
Two 1912 postcards of the Viceroy and the Bombay (Mumbai) Government House. The gathering includes Viceroy Lord Hardinge and Sir George Clarke Governor of Bombay Presidency. Also seated are Lady Hardinge and Lady Clarke. Others are probably the viceroy’s and the governor’s staff and family. They pose in front of the Bombay Government House, today the House is known as the Raj Bhavan.
The first Government House or Governor’s house was in Fort Castle, then shifted to Parel in the 1770s. Because of the pollution and congestion, the Governor’s House was transferred to Malabar Point. Malabar Point is a finger-like land jutting into the sea, with water on its three sides. This would become the permanent residence of the Governor of Bombay from 1880. From 1947 onwards it became the Raj Bhavan the residence of the Mumbai Governor. Click on the photo for better view.
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Did you know- that 15,000 square feet of tunnels, bunkers, and ammunition storage rooms were discovered in the Raj Bhavan in 2016.
From the collection- 1964 M. Suriyamoorthy Charcoal Art Abstract (#9).
