Emily Stehr

Interesting History of Mumbai Aka Bombay Emily Stehr

Word Origin of Mumbai: "A seaport in and the capital of Maharashtra, in west India, on the Arabian Sea." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/mumbai Word Origin and History of Bombay: "City in western India, from Portuguese, and popularly explained as Portuguese bom bahia 'good bay', but that seems folk etymology (for one, the adjective is masculine and the noun is feminine), and the more likely candidate is the local Mumbadevi 'Goddess Mumba', a Hindu deity worshipped there. The city's name officially changed to Mumbai in 1995." http: //www.dictionary.com/browse/bombay R Johnson; The new Gazetteer: or, Geographical Companion containing a general and concise account, alphabetically arranged, of all the empire, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, seas ... in the known world and more particularly in Great Britain; 1776 R Johnson writes: "BOMBAY, an island on this side the Ganges, and capital of the English settlements in the East-Indies. East longitude 73 north, latitude 19. It was formerly very unhealthy; but by draining the bogs, and other methods, that inconvenience is now in some measure removed."