A WAITER AT A LUXURY HOTEL BOMBAY ,INDIA 19 TH CENTURY

Now known as esplanade mansions is India's oldest surviving cast iron building,fabricated in England ,shipped to India,fabricated on site 1867 ,JOHN WATSON opened this whites only hotel with 130 guest rooms,bar,restaurant,employed English waitresses in ball room.famous guests included Mark twain.The first movie film by the Lumiere brothers in India was shown here ,seen only by white people.Rumours that industrialist TATA was denied entrance into the white only hotel and he retaliated by opening the TAJ hotel in 1903 .IN 1960 the building was sold to private owner and now in bad condition