View of Bombay From Mazgaon Hill, 1845 Print

View of Bombay From Mazgaon Hill, 1845 Print

An 1845 hand-coloured steel engraved print with a view of  Bombay (Mumbai) from Mazgaon Hill. The view is most likely after the completion of the reclamation. Bombay is undoubtedly an engineering marvel.

It was first a splinter group of seven islands, which was united into a single landmass by reclamation during the British era. The project took almost two and a half centuries to complete. By 1864, it had nearly 8 lakh people since then the city has been growing by development and by overpopulation. The first railway train travel in India was in 1853, between Bombay to Thane.

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Did you know- Andheri has a 66 million years old monolith column of black basalt rock called Gilbert Hill. The hill or rock has a sheer vertical face, formed when molten lava was squeezed out of the Earth’s clefts during the Mesozoic era about 66 million years ago. 

From the collection- Our Journey Around The World – 1894 Book.,  Antique Photo British Raj Family At Tea Simla 1880.,  Star Of India Flag & United Service Club – Vintage Postcard.