Description
The city of Mumbai in India has generated a lot of curiosity among the scholars within India and abroad. The multi-dimensional nature of the city and the exuberant continuity in spite of various hurdles have been the strong points of Mumbai. Every city expands with the political rules. Today the municipal jurisdiction of Mumbai is identified with the term MCGM i.e., Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The term ‘Bombay’ in the British records enveloped the area of seven islands. In ancient and medieval times certain localities outside the later British ‘Bombay’ had got populated. The book shows that these areas had the sources of potable water supply and hence they got populated.
