Saturday, December 4, 2010

"Hindoo women of Bombay in ceremonial dress"*;

*"Visit of the Viceroy of India to the Sassoon Dock at Bombay," from the Illustrated London News, 1865*

*"View of Bombay showing the fort," from 'History of the Indian Mutiny', 1858*

*"Native entertainment to European troops at Bombay," from the Illustrated London News, 1858

1858-BOMBAY FORT

*"The Hon. East India Company's fleet of transports and war-steamers in Bombay Harbour, previous to their departure for the Persian Gulf," Illustrated London News, 1857*

Commencement of the Reservoir, in the Valley of Vehar, Island of Salsette," Illustrated London News, 1856*

1770-BOMBAY

 


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BOMBAJA-(BOMBAY) FORT 1731

Bombay," an oil painting by George Lambert and Samuel Scott, c.1731

BOMBAIA(BOMBAY) 1703

A Bombay-minted half-anna coin from 1794: the left side promises "justice" ('adl)

A silver 15-rupee coin from the Bombay mint, 1770

An early East India Company paisa coin, minted in Bombay in 1672

VASAI FORT-1630






The Town of Chaul" and "The Town of Bassein," a French print from the 1700's
Source: ebay, Sept. 2007


1780-MAP OF BOMBAY-SHOWING ENGLISH FORT ;PORTUGESE FORT AT VASAI ;MAHIN(MAHIM)BANDORA(BANDRA)WARSOUVA(VERSOVA)

1750-MAP OF 'BOMBAY'ISLAND AND BANDURA(BANDRA)AND MAYEN(MAHIM)

MAP -BOMBAY-1893

1780--SURAT

"Logie van Suratte," the headquarters building of the Dutch East India Company, from 'Pieter van den Broecke's Voyages to West Africa and Asia 1605-1630' by Isaac Commelin, Amsterdam, 1646;-LATER-- AFTER CAPTURE BY BRITISH




A depiction of the British factory in Surat, after the English had supplanted the Dutch (compare the Dutch "logie" above); a French engraving, c.1725

MAP OF' BONBAS' (BOMBAY)AND SURAT--[A coastal map for pilots from 'Le petit flambeau de la mer', 1650's ]AND FORT OF 'BOMBAIE'(BOMBAY)



Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi (late Ruler of Aundh)