Mumbai: In the early 20th century, Bombay was fast transforming from a trading town into a bustling colonial metropolis. The Gazetteer of the Bombay City and Island (1907-08) offers a fascinating ...

The famous sedition trial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1908 was one of the few important political cases tried before the Bombay High Court in the pre-independence days. The special jury that ruled in ...

Long before airports became the gateways to Indian cities, railway stations carried that responsibility. They were where ...

‘Native’ is a funny word. Is this a useful bon mot when talking about the inhabitants of a city largely constituted of migrants from its very inception? Both the overlords and underlings who ...

The First World War raised costs of living and depressed wages all at once, thus reducing the buying power of Bombay’s inhabitants, who then numbered over 1.5 million. This catapulted labour movements ...

It might be interesting to note that, back in the day, the strict measures imposed through such colonial laws were largely unsuccessful in controlling the Plague in 1896. The iron hand of the British ...

According to reports, securing membership at the South Mumbai institution requires an upfront admission fee exceeding ₹1.12 ...

In 1947, the political baton was passed on to India, but the British judicial system endured. What contributed to this seamless transition? Why didn’t the Indian judges seek to mould the system to the ...

Students of the Deodhar Music School at Girgaon, Mumbai. Photo courtesy Girish Gogate Divergent colonial ideologies created a Western-educated intellectual class in India. To begin with, the ...

Around the globe, traditional social structure was disrupted with the emergence of modern industrial capitalism. Originating in Britain, in the mid-18th century, industrial capitalism “saw the rapid ...