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Clued into Mumbai's history
Updated On: 16 December, 2020 09:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Shunashir Sen
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There is a story that surrounds Fryer's Map of Bombay from 1672 — one of the earliest documents depicting the city as a single island — which illustrates the deviousness with which the British went about spreading their vast footprint across the Indian Subcontinent.
Most people know that this region was once a conglomeration of seven separate islands — Worli, Mahim, Sion, Mazagaon, Bombay, Colaba and Little Colaba (Old Woman's Island). Of these, the Portuguese handed over only Bombay as dowry to the British when Catherine of Braganza married Charles II of England in May 1662. Their own map showed all seven islands as separate entities, since they were divided by water during high tide. But this demarcation disappeared during low tide when all the islands were connected as one after the water went down.
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