Somewhere underneath the vast overcrowded urban explosion, lays a cluster of seven disjointed islands, collectively called Mumbai. Formerly called Bombay, Mumbai is the business of India. According to records available, the city of Mumbai was first established by the Hindu rulers from the Deccan Plateau, followed by the Muslims & the English.
Mumbai has been a trading port, since time immemorial and thus important economically. The economy of cotton was scaled by the establishment of cotton mills in 1854. The spice naive British saw huge trading potential and thus established regular shipping lines for cotton, spice and tea trade, between Mumbai & London.
When British Governor Gerald Aungier set up camp on Mumbai Island, he established the judiciary, drained the malarial swamps, built the first docks and invited migrant workers from other parts of India.
Mumbai started to experience overpopulation, poor sanitation and political unrest. The Indian National Congress (later, the Congress Party of India), held its first meeting for Indian Independence. Despite the first Indian film industry; opposition to British rule grew strong. Mahatma Gandhi, commonly known as the Mahatma (’Great Soul’) lived on Laburnam Road upon his return from South Africa, launching his Quit India campaign.
Fast-forward two hundred years and Mumbai is India’s ‘Maximum City’ bold, brash, fast and frenetic, always faddish, fashion-obsessed and undeniably animated in all aspects of its life.
Three centuries of development have transformed seven scrubby islands into a mighty metropolis of towering apartment blocks, colonial mansions, seafront promenades and air-conditioned shopping malls. If Delhi is the seat of history and Kolkata the seat of culture, Mumbai is the address of film and fashion – many leading designers are based there and the Bollywood movie machine churns out a staggering one thousand films a year.
Mumbai is where Indian fantasies of wealth and glamour engage in a bizarre dance with poverty and slums, and where economic boom flirts with social collapse. More than 60% of Mumbaikers live in shantytowns, yet the city also boasts some of the most expensive real estate in the country. Plans are afoot to build a futuristic new town of towering skyscrapers in the north of this city, transforming Mumbai into the Shanghai of India.
From a visitor’s perspective, Mumbai is a place to shop and dine by day and party by night.
By: Abhishek Arora
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India is most beautiful country on earth. It is not only a country but it is blessed with all types of landscapes, cultures, traditions and people. India has so much to offer for people who want to travel in India.
There are many destinations in India that are unforgettable but the north India tours are the best part that I found when traveling in India. The travel destinations in northern part of India are full of moisture and rainy weathers that makes your journey more pleasant when you roam in north India. The north India tourism has numerous hill stations spots that all are completely blessed with beauty, culture and traditional foods.
You can enjoy the camel ride in great Rajasthan with most amazing traditional Rajasthan kingdom hotels that are built with royalty and pride. The Rajasthan is one of the best north India travel destinations.
The hill stations of Himalayas in north along with the cultural and modern life of cities situated with the mountains of Himalayas will provide you the soothing weather that you always wish to find while traveling in any part of the world. Tourism in India is blessed with beautiful weather. Northern India tours provide you with the cheap shopping offers. You can do shopping with open heart because the products are very cheap in north India, especially the hand made crafts and clothes are best to buy from there.
The fairs and festivals of incredible India are very unique. During your travel in norther part of India, you can see the cultural effects of people living in Himalayas cold mountains to the people of dessert Rajasthan at one glance. This is the best part about the India tourism and northern India tours provides you with the ever lasting impressions of natural and creative beauty. The Jammu and Kashmir of north India is the pride land of nature’s beauty. The Kashmir is so beautiful that you can not see any thing else on the world except for the beautiful landscape in Kashmir. Every landscape gets different after covering a small distance and that is the most admiring thing I found about the north India travel destinations.
New Delhi, the capital of India is located in northern part of India. It is home of the democratic people and offers a wide variety of political works and city life. But between the cities are the beautiful historic monuments built by the Mughal emperors in eighteenth and nineteenth century. The north India tourism will provide you offer to see every thing from desserts to hills, from villages to cities at single location. The golden triangle tour to India is best thing to see while traveling in north India. It is always the site that all tourist wishes to see. But you have to set the time for visiting the golden triangle. Try to visit the place in cooler weather from October to March. Otherwise, the weather is hotter and you can not enjoy your trip at best while doing travel to India.
By: Alexa Keri
