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  • 15:24, 17 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+131)‎ . . Index ‎ (→‎CONCEPTS)
  • 15:19, 17 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+14)‎ . . Index ‎
  • 13:27, 17 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+214)‎ . . N Bombay Dost ‎ (Created page with "Bombay Dost is India's first registered newsletter of the gay community started in the year 1990 by Ashok Row Kavi. Further: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/bombay-dost-india...") (current)
  • 13:14, 17 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+20)‎ . . Index ‎ (→‎PUBLICATIONS)
  • 13:29, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+197)‎ . . N Wahhabi Phobia ‎ (Created page with " After the May 1857 rebellion in the North, the city police was under a spell of suspicion of the local Muslim population, about their entering into some conspiracy against th...")
  • 13:28, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+435)‎ . . N White Gold ‎ (Created page with "Cotton in Bombay during the time of American civil war under was refered to as ‘White Gold’ as people dealing in its trade made unprecedented amounts of money. With the Am...") (current)
  • 13:00, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+232)‎ . . N Toliwalas ‎ (Created page with "The intermediaries with whom the labour supplying firms entered into contract for supplying labour at the harbour during the nineteenth century.They were the job contractors a...")
  • 12:59, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+15)‎ . . Index ‎ (→‎THINGS)
  • 12:57, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+385)‎ . . N Share Mania ‎ (Created page with "refers to the first recorded boom in the Indian stock market which ended in grief and ruin for many. The meltdown happened because the American Civil war ended in May 1865, wh...") (current)
  • 12:57, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+686)‎ . . N Sathottari Poets ‎ (Created page with "the angry young men in Marathi poetry who rebelled against the formalism of Mardhekar’s poetry and reject him in their search for a yet another new idiom that reflects the o...") (current)
  • 12:54, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+680)‎ . . N Sanad ‎ (Created page with "The sanads of Bombay covered a period of 40 years from 1814 to 1854 during which 828 sanads were issued by the Collector. They relate to portions of ground mostly in the New T...") (current)
  • 12:52, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+330)‎ . . N Quit and Ground Rent Tenure ‎ (Created page with "Quit-rent originally implied freedom from liability to military service. The tax was imposed on all the inhabitants residing within the town walls and for the lands that were...")
  • 12:52, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1)‎ . . Photopass ‎ (current)
  • 12:51, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+240)‎ . . N Photopass ‎ (Created page with "o survey various neighbourhoods and issue a document called the ‘photopass’. This document is mainly a photograph of the families in front of their homes, which was suppos...")
  • 12:48, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+304)‎ . . N Kurla Stone ‎ (Created page with " the stone from the quarries around Kurla was termed Kurla Stone. Yellow in color and thus also called ‘yellow basalt’ formed part of the Deccan Trap. Was extensively used...") (current)
  • 12:46, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+340)‎ . . N Kurleet Tenure ‎ (Created page with "In some parts of the Mahim District a type of ground was called Kurleet which paid a "petty tribute" to Government. It consisted chiefly of high and rocky ground, which could...") (current)
  • 12:45, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+342)‎ . . N Kachra Gaadi ‎ (Created page with "The train that used to run with waggons full of city refuse and was also known as Kurla Deonar Tain. In the 1920s, a railway service, popularly called ‘Kachra Depot’, use...")
  • 12:41, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+549)‎ . . N Inami Tenure ‎ (Created page with "The lands in Bombay which fell under this tenure were situated mainly at Naigaum, Parel, north-east of Sion, Fort and a small portion near Dadar and Dharavi. Inam lands pay no...")
  • 12:41, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+870)‎ . . N Halalkhore Tax ‎ (Created page with "refers to the tax collected by municipal corporation in lieu of providing sewerage facilities to city dwellers. In the year 1973 an amendment to the Municipal law was made and...") (current)
  • 12:39, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+148)‎ . . N Foras ‎ (Created page with "The Foras lands were situated at Byculla, Parel, Worli, Upper and Lower Mahim, Dadar and Matunga with an area of 3,408 acres and 3,266 square yards.")
  • 12:38, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+1,825)‎ . . N Elphistone Land and Press Company ‎ (Created page with "The Company was formed in the year 1858 for the reclamation of the foreshore, the construction of godowns for merchandize and the erection of a cotton press. The Company in th...")
  • 12:37, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+417)‎ . . N Dog Riots ‎ (Created page with "In the year 1832, the government decided to kill the stray dogs to which many of the Parsis objected and during one such raid by the Dog squad led to the call of a day long st...") (current)
  • 12:36, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+190)‎ . . N Controller of Slums ‎ (Created page with "The said post was created by the state government in the year 1977 with a mandate to prevent the proliferation of slums and to coordinate the programmes of various authorities...") (current)
  • 12:34, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+174)‎ . . N Bombay Bank Commission ‎ (Created page with "A Commission appointed in the year 1868 under the chairmanship of Charles Jackson to inquire into and report on the causes and circumstances of the failure of Bank of Bombay.") (current)
  • 12:33, 14 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+362)‎ . . N Backbay Reclemation Company ‎ (Created page with "Founded by Premchand Roy Chand, Cowasji Jehanghir, Walter Cassels and Mr. Gavin Steel, in the year 1863. The Company was formed with the objective to take forward a reclamatio...") (current)
  • 17:10, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+99)‎ . . N G D Ghokashe ‎ (Created page with "Member of Republican Party of India author of Mumbaitil Gharachi Samasya published in the year 1991") (current)
  • 17:08, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+93)‎ . . N B K Boman Behram ‎ (Created page with "a former mayor of Bombay, was opponent of the modified Back Bay Reclamation scheme in the 70s") (current)
  • 17:04, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+156)‎ . . N B G Horniman ‎ (Created page with "Editor of Bombay Chronicle and staunch supporter of India’s independence. He was arrested and deported for his coverage of the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre") (current)
  • 16:36, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+68)‎ . . N Bagaram Tulpule ‎ (Created page with "Trade Unioninst and an idealogue associated with Hind Mazdoor Sabha.") (current)
  • 16:22, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+600)‎ . . N Ahilya Rangnekar ‎ (Created page with "one of the founder members of the Parel Mahila Sangh in 1943 which organised food for the striking sailors during the revolt by the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) ratings in 1946. Ah...")
  • 16:18, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (-1)‎ . . Index ‎ (→‎PEOPLE)
  • 16:13, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+165)‎ . . N Arun Kamble ‎ (Created page with "was one of the founder members of Dalit Panthers, member of the Maharashtra State Study Group that contributed to the Eight Report of the National Police Commission.")
  • 16:11, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+144)‎ . . N Agri ‎ (Created page with "The name Agri comes from Agar, a salt-pan. Salt making, fishery at the sea coast and farming of rice are the major occupations of this community")
  • 16:10, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+653)‎ . . N Thakkar Bapa ‎ (Created page with "MK Gandhi made him president of the Harijan Sevak Sangh and before that he was member of the Servants of India Society, initialy worked as an Engineer at BMC where he came ac...") (current)
  • 16:09, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+98)‎ . . N Sultan Bahadur ‎ (Created page with "ruled Bombay and entered into an agreement with Portuguese and handed over Bombay to them in 1534.") (current)
  • 16:08, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+112)‎ . . N S K Patil ‎ (Created page with "mayor of Bombay during whose time the plan of transforming Bombay into Paris on 60s led to widespread evictions.")
  • 16:06, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+217)‎ . . N S T Gaikwad ‎ (Created page with "A contemporary and fellow worker of B R Ambedkar, palyed an important role inthe Mahad Satyagraha and Kalaram Temple Entry movement at Nashik. Mahar Samaj Sewa Sangh was foun...") (current)
  • 16:01, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+192)‎ . . N Ramachandra Bhandre ‎ (Created page with "Secretary of Bombay Municipal Kamgar Sangh and member of Schedule Castes Federation. Member of BMC from 1945 to 57 and started aweekly called Nirdhar. He started Tamil Sang...") (current)
  • 16:00, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+174)‎ . . N Ramchandra Ankush Londhe ‎ (Created page with "an activist with the Scheduled Caste Federation and one of the early residents of Pestom Sagar (now known as P.L. Lokhande Marg) and author of Memories of Babasaheb Ambedkar.") (current)
  • 15:58, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+415)‎ . . N Mrinal Gore ‎ (Created page with "she was elected Corporator to the Mumbai Municipal Corporation in 1961.She earned the sobriquet "Paniwali Bai" in Mumbai for her efforts to facilitate the supply of drinking w...")
  • 15:57, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+267)‎ . . N Mohamad Yusuf ‎ (Created page with "Was the proprietor of Bombay Steam Navigation Company which was set up by his grand father Haji Mastan and it was the first indian owned shipping company. Gave endowments for...") (current)
  • 15:56, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+534)‎ . . N Mangal Gadre ‎ (Created page with "was publicly blown with guns at Esplande, now Azad Maidain on 15th October 1857. Charles Forgett the then Police Commissioner claimed to uncover a conspiracy to blow up the fo...") (current)
  • 15:55, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+324)‎ . . N Maniben Kara ‎ (Created page with "A trade unioninstt and one of the founder member of Hind Mazdoor Sabha. Earler was member of M N Roy’s radical humanists. In the year 1929 she had formed the Sewa Mandir and...")
  • 15:54, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+422)‎ . . N Kisan Mehta ‎ (Created page with "A Municipal Councillor in the Muncipal Corporation of Greater Bombay, and served as Chairman of the BEST Undertaking and responsible for "Electric Supply to Slums Scheme” fo...") (current)
  • 15:49, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+129)‎ . . N Kamal Donde ‎ (Created page with "received bullet injury on 22nd February 1946 while participating in the the demonstrations supporting the Royal India Navy Mutiny")
  • 14:56, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+472)‎ . . N Kaka Bapista ‎ (Created page with "one of the founders of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in 1920, a labour leader, as well as the one who started the Home Rule League in Belgaum in 1916. He was also...")
  • 14:53, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+154)‎ . . N B B Ashaya ‎ (Created page with "RPI corporator and leader of Greater Bombay Republican Zopadpatti Sangh, was involved in rehabilitation of slum dwellers from Raoli Camp to Motilal Nagar.") (current)
  • 14:51, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+920)‎ . . N Babu Genu ‎ (Created page with "A Mill worker and a resident of the Phoenix Mills Chawl was participant in the 1930, Civil Disobedience Movement during which he had laid blockade at shops selling foreign cl...") (current)
  • 14:49, 13 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+388)‎ . . N Ashok Mehta ‎ (Created page with "An important member of the freedom struggle movement and an active participant on the city politics of Bombay and a Trade Unioninst. Was one of the founder members of the Indi...")
  • 17:37, 12 July 2017 (diff | hist) . . (+22)‎ . . Index ‎ (→‎PLACES)

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