Bombay single deck Tram
BOMBAY DOUBLE DECKER TRAM
CALCUTTA TRAM
CALCUTTA TRAM
CALCUTTA TRAM
DELHI TRAM
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DELHI TRAM
KKARACHI TRAM
Monday, June 29, 2009
TRAMS WERE POPULAR IN BOMBAY CALCUTTA AND KARACHI
Bombay single deck Tram
BOMBAY DOUBLE DECKER TRAM
CALCUTTA TRAM
CALCUTTA TRAM
CALCUTTA TRAM
DELHI TRAM
DELHI TRAM
KKARACHI TRAM
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
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
BAÇAIM, BASSEIN, VASAI PORTUGESES FORT 1560 BOMBAY NOW IN RUINS
RUINS OF THE FORT AND CHURCH WAITING FOR RESTORATION
Baçaim (Vasai): fortified town ruins, town walls (1550-1582) with 10 bastions well preserved (ruins of : Nossa Senhora da Vida (1535), Franciscan Church and Convent of Santo Antonio, Augustinian Church and Convent, Jesuits Church and Convent (1561), Church and Convent of the Dominicans, Church Matriz of St. Jose (1546), Camara, Senado, Chapel of St. John Baptist), fortress or citadel of Sao Sebastiao (1536-1539).
The Jesuit Church is currently (1/2007) under renovation and will soon be the first complete church of Bassein.
BAÇAIM, BASSEIN, VASAI PORTUGESES FORT 1560 BOMBAY NOW IN RUINS
Interior of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Vida (1535), the oldest church of Baçaim. Vasai, Bassein, Baçaim.
BAÇAIM, BASSEIN, VASAI PORTUGESES FORT 1560 BOMBAY NOW IN RUINS
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THE FACADE OF NOSSA SENORE DA VIDA THE OLDEST CHURCH IN BOMBAY BY PORTUGESE
BAÇAIM, BASSEIN, VASAI PORTUGESES FORT 1560 BOMBAY NOW IN RUINS
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RUINS OF SANTO ANTONIO CHURCH OF (FRANCISCAN)
Thursday, June 25, 2009
The Bandra Portugese Fort of 1600 in BOMBAY
1534, Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, who ruled over this area, ceded the coastal tract from Bombay to beyond Bassein, to the Portuguese. This included the island of Salsette, of which Bandra was part.
History
The Portuguese, who had established a base in the area in 1534 after defeating Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, built several sea forts along the western Indian coastline. Castella de Aguada was one such strategically located fort, overlooking the Mahim Bay to the south, the Arabian Sea to the west, the islands of Worli to the south and the town of Mahim to the south west. The fort also guarded the northern sea route into Mumbai Harbour This sea route, a large estuary, was later reclaimed from the sea in the nineteenth century. During the Portuguese rule, it was armed with seven cannons and other smaller guns as defence.[3] A freshwater spring in the vicinity supplied potable water to passing ships, thus lending the fort its name.[1]
After the decline of the Portuguese in the early 18th century, the Marathas became the largest threat to British possessions. Sensing an impending Portuguese defeat, the British partially demolished the fort as a precautionary measure. The demolition would obviate the possibility of the fort being captured by the Marathas, with the possibility of it being used as a forward military base to attack British Bombay.[4]
In 1739 the island was invaded by the Marathas; it was ruled by them until 1761 when the British gained possession of the area during theFirst Anglo-Maratha War. In 1830, the British donated large parts ofSalsette Island, including Land's End, to Byramjee Jeejeebhoy, aParsi philanthropist. Jeejeeboy then established his residence on the hill where the fort is located, and the cape was renamed Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Point.[5]
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