East Indians are native Christians of Mumbai and are considered the original residents of the Bombay, Thana and Salsette islands. Their origins date back to the 15th and 16th century when Portuguese missionaries converted members of local farming, fishing and salt-making communities to Roman Catholicism.
250 BCE – The earliest written mention of Mumbai in Greek sources. 3rd Century BCE – Mumbai was part of Emperor Ashoka's Mauryan Empire. Until 1343 CE – The Shilahara dynasty ruled Mumbai. 1343 CE – Mumbai came under the Muslim rulers of Gujarat.
The Bombay East Indians, also called East Indian Catholics or simply East Indians, are an ethno-religious Indian Christian community native to the Seven Islands of Bombay, the Mumbai Metropolitan Area and the northern Konkan region; along the western coast of India.
Indigenous tribals have inhabited Mumbai (Bombay) since the Stone Age. The Kolis and Aagri (a Marathi-Konkani people) were the earliest known settlers of the islands.
It became known as Bombay during the British colonial period, the name possibly an Anglicized corruption of Mumbai or perhaps of Bom Baim (“Good Harbor”), supposedly a Portuguese name for the locale. The name Mumbai was restored officially in 1995, although Bombay remained in common usage.
"Portugal Cedes Bombay to the English" refers to a significant historical event in the 17th century when Portugal officially transferred control of Bombay (now Mumbai) to England as part of a marriage treaty between Catherine of Braganza and King Charles II of England.
The Marathi people (/məˈrɑːti/; Marathi: मराठी लोक, Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India.
According to a 2017 study by European geneticists (Silva et al., 2017), Gujaratis carry predominantly Ancestral North Indian (West Eurasian) genes. The study shows that Gujaratis, Rajasthanis, and Pakistanis are genetically part of Western South Asia.
The southernmost districts of Bombay State were included in Mysore State. So, it had a Gujarati-speaking population in the north and a Marathi-speaking population in the southern parts. Both Gujarati and Marathi people opposed the SRC's recommendation and strongly demanded separate linguistic states.
Varanasi is one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities. Kashi, its ancient name, was associated with a kingdom of the same name of 2,500 years ago. The Lion capital of Ashoka at nearby Sarnath has been interpreted to be a commemoration of the Buddha's first sermon there in the fifth century BCE.
Humans of Bombay (HoB) is an Indian photoblog about people in Mumbai (previously known as Bombay). It was started in 2014 by Karishma Mehta.). The photoblog document inspirational stories of individuals on their social media channels and a website.
The British merged the 7 islands together by constructing a causeway known as the Horny Vellard. And this created the Bombay as we see today. It is from the Portuguese name Bombaim that the British started calling it “Bombay” during the 17th century.
Late Rev. John Wilson mentions that Son Koli to be the original inhabitants of Bombay islands, the Raj Koli of Jawhar and the North Konkan, the Mahadev and Malhar of the Deccan and the Kharvas and Agares of Surat and Thane.
The oldest tribe in India is widely considered to be the Jarawa tribe, an indigenous people who inhabit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. They are believed to have descended from the first settlers of the islands, who arrived around 30,000 years ago.
Inter and intra population comparisons reveal that the maternal gene pool of Maharashtra state populations is composed of mainly South Asian haplogroups with traces of east and west Eurasian haplogroups, while the paternal haplogroups comprise the South Asian as well as signature of near eastern specific haplogroup J2a ...
Oldest Language currently spoken in India :- Tamil (5K years) Sanskrit (4K years) Kannada (2K years) Telugu (2K years) Malayalam (2K years) Odia (2K years) Marathi (1.8K years) Bengali (1.5K years) Gujarati (1K years) Hindi (0.8K years) Tamil is the oldest & Hindi is the Newest.
Charles II, Catherine of Braganza and Bombay. Charles II (r. 1660–85) married Catherine of Braganza in May 1662. Part of her large dowry was the Portuguese territory of 'Bom Bahia' (Bombay) on the western coast of India, modern Mumbai.
Portuguese India consisted of several isolated tracts: (1) the territory of Goa with the capital, a considerable area in the middle of the west coast of India; (2) Damão, or Daman, with the separated territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, north of Mumbai (Bombay) and lying between the Indian states of Maharashtra and ...
Bombay: The old name of Mumbai is Bombay, which was widely used during British colonial rule. The name became popular after the Portuguese colonists took control in the 16th century and was later adopted by the British.
