Historical record · Islands, industry and a growing metropolis

Mumbai

Follow Mumbai from its regional past through colonial transfers, railways, mills, political change and new harbour connections.

Primary topic: Places

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Scope of this guide

Selected changes in the region, island city and wider metropolitan area. Kanheri is regional evidence, not an exact founding date; Koli communities and local naming precede colonial administration. This is not a complete history of every community or suburb.

Actual source-review status

11 completed · 0 partial · 0 pending chapter reviews in this subject.

The factual audit is unfinished. These counts come from recorded chapter reviews, not legacy “reviewed” wording, confidence labels or image checks. A completed source review retains scientific and historical uncertainty.

Key chapters

c. 1st century BCE–10th century CE
Kanheri preserves the region’s early past →
Rock-cut caves record centuries of activity in the landscape now within Mumbai.
Chapter source review completed: 2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review. Scientific uncertainty is retained in the evidence note.
1861–1865
Cotton reshapes the city →
The American Civil War redirects cotton demand toward Bombay.
Chapter source review completed: 2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review. Scientific uncertainty is retained in the evidence note.
12 January 2024
Atal Setu crosses the harbour →
The Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link is inaugurated.
Chapter source review completed: 2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review. Scientific uncertainty is retained in the evidence note.

Connected roads

These are authored connections in the existing catalogue, not an automatically inferred family tree.

India’s independence (related topic) · Subject guide

All chapters & review records

Kanheri preserves the region’s early pastcompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Portuguese control beginscompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
The East India Company takes chargecompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Rail connects Bombay and Thanecompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Cotton reshapes the citycompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Electric trains serve the suburbscompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Naval ratings begin a revoltcompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Mumbai becomes Maharashtra’s capitalcompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Mumbai becomes the official namecompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Two architectural eras gain World Heritage recognitioncompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review
Atal Setu crosses the harbourcompleted2026-10-11 · Codex expansion source review

Sources

Sources cited by the existing chapters. Listing a source does not mean every claim has been verified.