How Bombay got its very own architectural language

How Bombay got its very own architectural language, away from the colonial gaze

The article first appeared in Scroll on July 31, 2024

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 established Bombay came from elsewhere – the Portuguese, the British, the Gujarati and Marathi speakers, all of whom settled and worked and governed this fledgling harbour town.

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