The history of Mumbai or Bombay took a major new turn once the British took over in the late seventeenth century.
They not only envisaged a great future for the harbour but also made arrangements to make it secure.
The first episode of the series Bombay Born focuses on life around the harbor in the mid-nineteenth century. The future metropolis was still a town around the Fort and the harbor.
Potential ruin was never too far away.
The cyclone of 1854 was one such milestone.
The episode concludes with a detailed account of the havoc it wrecked. Now that climate change specialists have warned that Mumbai might well go under the sea by another fifty or so years, it makes sense, to begin with, similar eventualities in the past.
Join us on this 10-part journey as we decode, the rise of Bombay
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